starting programms at startup

[Luis Varon]

Hi,

i have a problem starting automatic an Oracle9i Database after an reboot of the server.

As mentioned in the HP-UX Documentation I created a script to automatic start und stop the Database. I tried all the instrunctions by hand and it work fine. I although create the symbolic links mentioned in the Documentation.

Although the Database is not started after reboot. In rc.log I get the following Message:

Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S99dbora start":
----------------------------
/sbin/rc3.d/S99dbora[24]: su: not found.
"/sbin/rc3.d/S99dbora start" FAILED
Can someone please help me and tell me what am I doing wrong.

Many thanks in advance

Luis

[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

Sounds like 'su' is not in it's path.
Try replacing the "su" on line 24 of sbin/rc3.d/S99dbora with "/usr/bin/su"

[John Palmer]

Hi,

Startup scripts have a very limited shell environment. It sounds as though PATH isn't set correctly.

Could you post your startup script?

Regards,
John

[BFA6]

Just a thought - in the script do you have the full path to the su command ?

If not try putting it in and see if it makes a difference.

Regards,

Hilary

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Luis,

The script is not able to find the su command.

So at line 24 in S99dbora file
change 'su' to '/usr/bin/su'.

Also, it is ideal to specify the shell in which you run the S99dbora file. So change your /sbin/init.d/dbora file and at the beginning mention #!/usr/bin/ksh

-Sukant

[Luis Varon]

Hi,

you all where right. He couldn't found the su command.

I've changed it but it still doesn't work.

Now I get this message in rc.log

Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S99dbora start":
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stty: : Not a typewriter
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(c)Copyright 1986 Digital Equipment Corp.
(c)Copyright 1990 Motorola, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Cornell University
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Not a terminal
stty: : Not a typewriter
stty: : Not a typewriter
logout

The command I use to start the database is the following:

/usr/bin/su - $ORA_OWNER -c "/opt/oracle/products/9.0.1/bin/dbstart &"

ORA_OWNER is an variable I define at the begin of the dbora script.

Maybe you could help me.

Many thanks in advance

Luis

[Deepak Extross]

The stty errors you are getting are probably because the $HOME/.profile of $ORA_OWNER has some "stty" commands. Commenting them out should make these errors go away.

Another thing - try replacing
/usr/bin/su - $ORA_OWNER -c "/opt/oracle/products/9.0.1/bin/dbstart &"
with
/usr/bin/su - $ORA_OWNER -c "nohup /opt/oracle/products/9.0.1/bin/dbstart &"

Good Luck!

[Deepak Extross]

In fact, you should do it like this:
nohup /usr/bin/su - $ORA_OWNER -c "/opt/oracle/products/9.0.1/bin/dbstart" &
Let us know if this helps.