ARCHIVELOG mode not enabling

From: Sam Petitto <sam.petitto_at_netsec.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:17:39 -0400
Message-ID: <37B31DD3.8144CE7D@netsec.net>

Running 8i on NT.  Do I have an obvious mistake ? I went verbatim straight from the book:
SVRMGR> connect internal
SVRMGR> shutdown
SVRMGR> startup mount
SVRMGR> alter database archivelog
SVRMGR> alter database open

every thing responded properly until I ran the command "archive log list"
Do I need to bounce the database for the change to take effect ? No mention of that in manual.

SVRMGR> archivelog list;
Database log mode                                 Archive Mode
Automatic Archival                                 Disabled         /* This is the problem - should be Enabled */
Archive destination                                 D:\Oracle\Ora8i\RDBMS
Oldest online log sequence                      2
Next log sequence to archive                  5
Current log sequence                              5

TIA for any comments/suggestions ...
 
 

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  Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 14:17:39 CDT