Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!192.87.166.28.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!post1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl!cache4.tilbu1.nb.home.nl!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:47:30 +0100 From: Frank van Bortel Reply-To: frank.van.bortel@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: dbstart with wrong shell / wrong systax References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3107d$4b693823$524ba3af$11121@cache4.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> X-Complaints-To: abuse.home.news@prolocation.net Organization: @home Lines: 47 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.75.163.175 (82.75.163.175) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:47:31 +0100 X-Trace: 3107d4b693823f7ee060a11121 Xref: news.cambrium.nl comp.databases.oracle.misc:32943 Sven Hilmer wrote: > hi all > > After installing Oracle database 11.2 on Solaris 10 x86 > the dbstart script doesn't work because of the interpreter > is set to /bin/sh but the script uses syntax of ksh/bash . > > dbstart: > line 1:#!/bin/sh > ... > line 89:export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER > > > This export statement is illegal for bourne shell > so the script exits with an error message and doesn't the database processes > > How do you solve this problem? > > Sven > > -- > Sven-Olaf Hilmer, Solaris System Engineer > http://www.hilmer-informatik.ch frank@cs-frank03:~$ bash frank@cs-frank03:~$ echo $ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER frank@cs-frank03:~$ echo $ORACLE_HOME frank@cs-frank03:~$ export ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER=Blah frank@cs-frank03:~$ echo $ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER Blah frank@cs-frank03:~$ export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER frank@cs-frank03:~$ echo $ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER Blah frank@cs-frank03:~$ exit exit frank@cs-frank03:~$ Beware, LISTNER is usually written as LISTENER (note the extra E) Also beware dbshut and dbstart usually are called during system startup/shutdown, not meant for 'normal' operations -- Regards, Frank van Bortel Topposting in Usenet groups I regard as offensive - I will not reply