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Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Hi HP Gurus,

I've installed Oracle 8i on HP-UX. I would like to make it autostart after reboot.

I've just created a start/stop (oracle) under /sbin/init.d with start & stop parameters.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
case $1 in
start)
. /home/vismgr/start.sh
;;
stop)
. /home/vismgr/stop.sh
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
;;
esac
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Script works fine from #prompt. To make it work automatic during reboot, what else I need to do? Please advice.
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Scott Howell
Occasional Advisor

Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Are you using dbshut/dbstart? I know with Oracle 8.1.6 there was an error with the dbstart script. I Just copied 'template' from /sbin/init.d to 'oracle' and filled in the 'start' and 'stop' sections of the 'oracle' script with dbstart and dbshut respectively. Also have you configured oratab correctly?

Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Hi Scott,

The problem is not with the Oracle, since the scripts (start.sh&stop.sh) were written by me and works very well from # prompt. No issues on it. Only thing about the auto-startup the script after reboot.

From some of the questions posted to this site, I found that /sbin/init.d/oracle must link to /sbin/rcn.d....

My Question is, do we need to do any extra steps other than creating a script file under /sbin/init.d dircetory?

Regards,
Steven Sim Kok Leong
Honored Contributor

Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Hi,

One common mistake in writing the startup/shutdown script is that the environmental settings are not set correctly in the script itself. When you test at the command line, the PATH settings and environment variables eg. ORACLE_SID that you specified in your .profile have already been set. However, if you are running the startup/shutdown script, your profile is not loaded, thus it is important that the necessary ENV eg. PATH settings are set correctly.

If you follow the HP-UX conventional way of writing a startup/shutdown script, you should also include the configuration file /etc/rc.config.d/oracle. This file should contain environment settings as well as the script startup flag eg. ORACLE=1. In your /sbin/init.d/oracle, source this file /etc/rc.config.d/oracle and add the condition that if ORACLE=1, then start/stop oracle else don't start/stop oracle during system startup or shutdown.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
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Andreas Voss
Honored Contributor
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Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Hi,

for automatic start/stop you have to make symbolic links ie:

Start:
ln -s /sbin/init.d/oracle /sbin/rc3.d/S900oracle

Stop:
ln -s /sbin/init.d/oracle /sbin/rc2.d/K900oracle

Also add two additional case statements in your /sbin/init.d/oracle to have a message on the console at boot time:

start_msg)
echo "Starting ORACLE"
;;
stop_msg)
echo "Stopping ORACLE"
;;


Regards
Andreas D. Skjervold
Honored Contributor

Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Hi
Might add that I use to edit the Oracle-supplied script dbshut so that it does "shutdown immediate" instead of shutdown normal.
Prevents you from having a system shutdown that hangs waiting for Oracle users to log out.

rgds
Andreas
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Re: Autostart Oracle on Reboot

Thanks all of you!

And my Special Thanks to Andreas Voss for your info.

Regards,
Hari