Re: dbstart failed

From: Neil Hulin <nospam_at_*NOSPAM*litech.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 01:28:19 -0000
Message-ID: <744pi0$kub$1@newsreader3.core.theplanet.net>

One important permission is that of the "oracle" binary in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. It MUST be 4755 for other processes to attach to shared memory.

BTW: As a general rule use the same UNIX user id and group id for oracle and dba respectively on all your hosts.

Also, bringing Oracle down (or any process for that matter) using a kill -9 is very bad practice as the kill -9 can't be ignored by the process and doesn't allow a graceful exit. kill -9 should be used as a last resort only. In the case of oracle always bring the database down using server manager (svrmgrl under UNIX) by performing a "shutdown immediate". --
...neil {actually: neil [dot] hulin [at] litech [dot] freeserve [dot] co [dot] uk} Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 19:28:19 CST