I am trying to get Oracle 9i starting automatically on reboot on a Linux Red Hat ES4 server.
I have followed examples of how to do this on this forum as well as from Oracle but it still wont work.
Here is what I have done:
/etc/oratab has the following entry to start the SCMS instance.
SCMS:/u01/app/oracle:Y
In /etc/init.d
I have created the following script with 755 permissions owned by root. Oracle9 is my oracle user.
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle
# Description: Starts and stops the Oracle database and listeners
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting Oracle Databases: "
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Starting Oracle Databases as part of system up." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
su - oracle9 -c dbstart >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
echo -n "Starting Oracle Listeners: "
su - oracle9 -c "lsnrctl start" >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
echo ""
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Finished." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
touch /var/lock/subsys/oracle
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting Down Oracle Listeners: "
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Shutting Down Oracle Databases as part of system down." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
su - oracle9 -c "lsnrctl stop" >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/oracle
echo -n "Shutting Down Oracle Databases: "
su - oracle9 -c dbshut >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
echo ""
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Finished." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restarting Oracle Databases: "
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Restarting Oracle Databases as part of system up." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
su - oracle9 -c dbstop >> /var/log/oracle
su - oracle9 -c dbstart >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
echo -n "Restarting Oracle Listeners: "
su - oracle9 -c "lsnrctl stop" >> /var/log/oracle
su - oracle9 -c "lsnrctl start" >> /var/log/oracle
echo "Done."
echo ""
echo "-------------------------
date +"! %T %a %D : Finished." >> /var/log/oracle
echo "-------------------------
touch /var/lock/subsys/oracle
;;
*)
echo "Usage: oracle {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
If I run this script manually, ("$./etc/rc.d/init.d/oracl
I then added the following symbolic links:
$ ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99oracle
$ ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99oracle
$ ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S99oracle
$ ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01oracle
$ ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K01oracle
If I then shutdown the server, the databases shutdowns fine. I can see this by looking at the log for the script above.
When the server startups though, Oracle will not start. No error messages are output to the scripts log file.
Any help would be great why the script works in shutdown but not in startup.
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Did you use the "chkconfig" command to set up the dbora service to start and stop automatically when the machine is rebooted or shutdown?
If you aren't sure, you can try this first (as root):
chkconfig --list dbora
On my RedHat (AS4) server that shows:
# chkconfig --list dbora
dbora 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
The chkconfig command must be run as root. The syntax is:
chkconfig --level 35 dbora on
That will set up this service to start automatically the next time the machine is rebooted, but it won't start the service now.
To do that, just:
service dbora start
That should start the database. Then you can test a shutdown like this:
service dbora stop
Then to restart Oracle, just do:
service dbora start
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by: gvsbnarayanaPosted on 2006-11-16 at 09:07:57ID: 17957715
Hi,
did you issue "dbstart" in startup file of Linux?
Sorry.... I am not aware of the startup file name
HTH
Regards,
Badri.