Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!falcon.america.net!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Ron Reidy Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Embarrasing question Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:19:19 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3C177577.F4652529@indra.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 37 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:127956 X-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:21:49 MST (news.easynews.com) Jan Eliasen wrote: > > Hi there. > > I installed oracle 9i under redhat 7.2 as eht user "eliasen". It ran just > fine (I geuss). Now, I want to switch it to the user "oracle", so I > changed the owner of all the files in $ORACLE_BASE and subdirs to the new > user and booted the machine (I didnøt know what to run). But now, oracle > isn't running.. apparently, the installer doesn't make sure it starts up > when you boot? And I can not find any program to run to start it. During > my search, I found a $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart script - but it seems that > this script runs a sqldba script?!? And this script can not be found on my > harddrive :-/ What to do? > > And... another embarrasing one; How to I create users? I'd rather have a > graphical thingy or something so I don't have to use sqlplus and create > user and all that. Can anyone help me here? > > Just for the records; I'm looking like a maniac through > $ORACLE_BASE/doc/index.htm and the rest to find it, but I can't seem to > find what I need. > > Thank you in advance. > > -- > Eliasen Jr. You need to read the following docs: 1. Concepts manual. 2. Admin docs 3. Unix/Linux install docs. -- Ron Reidy Oracle DBA Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.