Linux Installation Question

I have Oracle 8.0.5 installed now on Linux (RH5.2).. As per the install
instructions, I created a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora containing the
following:

# Set ORA_HOME to be equivalent to the ORACLE_HOME
# from which you wish to execute dbstart and
# dbshut
# set ORA_OWNER to the user id of the owner of the
# Oracle database in ORA_HOME
ORA_HOME=/home/oracle/8.0.5.0.0
ORA_OWNER=oracle
if [! -f $ORA_HOME/bin/dbstart -o ! -d $ORA_HOME]
then
echo "Oracle startup: cannot start"
exit
fi
case "$1" in
'start')
# Start the Oracle databases:
su - $ORA_OWNER -c $ORA_HOME/bin/dbstart &
;;
'stop')
# Stop the Oracle databases:
su - $ORA_OWNER -c $ORA_HOME/bin/dbshut &
;;
esac
 

In the instructions, it then says:
Link dbora by entering:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora /etc/rc0.d/K10dbora

# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora /etc/rc2.d/S99dbora
 

.. this is where I am assuming it is set so that this dbora gets executed
on system boot.. correct?

Anyway, it doesn't work.  First of all, I am logged in as root.  Second
of all, I am assuming the # signs in there are a mistake since they are
comments in the bash shell.  Third of all, if I just try:
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora /etc/rc0.d/K10dbora

It returns an error saying:
ln: cannot create symbolic link `/etc/rc0.d/K10dbora' to
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora': No such file or directory

So, I tried a 'ls /etc/rc*' and I got:
init.d     rc.local   rc.sysinit    rc1.d      rc3.d    rc5.d
rc         rc.news    rc0.d         rc2.d      rc4.d    rc6.d

... so, rc0.d IS there... so, THEN I tried: ls /etc/rc0.d and got:
ls: /etc/rc0.d: No such file or directory

huh?? why won't this work?  does it or doesn't it exist?


Ans:
what does     ls -la  /etc/rc*     say?

Reply1:
ls -la /etc/rc* sez:

drwxr-xr-x  10 root     root         1024 Mar 17 10:41 .
drwxr-xr-x  26 root     root         2048 Mar 19 15:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 19 15:30 init.d
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1871 Oct 15 11:07 rc
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          693 Oct 15 11:07 rc.local
-r-xr-x---   1 news     news         2082 Sep 10  1998 rc.news
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         7165 Oct 15 11:07 rc.sysinit
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 10:46 rc0.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 10:46 rc1.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 10:46 rc2.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 11:12 rc3.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 11:12 rc4.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 11:12 rc5.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 17 10:46 rc6.d


Ans again:
The answer appears to be that there is only an rc.d directory in /etc. All
of the files in
the ls -la output are the directories and files within /etc/rc.d.  The ln
command in the documentation
was wrong because it should have said   /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/whatever.

Reply2:
Thanks Jack.

That made the command work...  Oracle still won't auto-start, though.
Back to the drawing board.
 
 

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