shutting down Oracle 10G on RedHat 4

chucker8 · 06-22-2006, 03:40 PM

Hello,

I've added the Kill scripts for Oracle (ln -s /etc/init.d/dbora K10dbora) and added them to /etc/rc6.d and /etc/rc0.d - yet Oracle is still not shutting down.

Is there a required directory that the symbloic links have to be put into for redHat?
thanks!

MensaWater · 06-23-2006, 12:57 PM

The links need to be in the runlevel (and the one below it) that you have Oracle running in. If "who -r" shows your run level as 3 then put the K10... in rc3.d AND rc2.d.

chucker8 · 06-26-2006, 01:04 PM

jilightner, thx for reply.

According to some info I've read:

At run levels 1 and 6 the script is run with a stop parameter, and in run levels 2,3,4,5 it receives a start parameter.

So either this or you is wrong...

MensaWater · 06-26-2006, 01:13 PM

Scripts in the format "K##command" are stop scripts and those in the format "S##command" are start scripts.

Since S and 0 are stop runlevels they would ONLY have K## scripts in them. All other run levels can have both K## and S##.

Its always possible there's a distro that does this differently but so far what I've seen only differs in where the files actually are located and additional links to where it wants them. What I wrote works for SVR4 based UNIX, as well as RedHat, Fedora and Debian Linux.

chucker8 · 06-26-2006, 03:45 PM

thx for your help.

The software I'm working with actually has a script which makes a call to dbora stop. But the script was looking for a /var/lock/subsys/oracle. In Oracle 10G, it looks as though file no longer gets created - therefore our script was failing.

Added this line to /etc/init.d/dbora to resove issue.

touch /var/lock/subsys/oracle

thanks again