-Suresh

In article <[email protected]>,
  Novice <[email protected]> wrote:
> I should have mentioned in the first place that I am on a
> Unix platform. The owner of Oracle files on Unix is dbadmin.
> I did run svrmgrl as dbadmin and after a normal boot of
> Unix.
>
> svrgmgr> connect internal
> Connected
> svrmgr> startup
> ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it
> down first
> SVRMGR> quit
> Server Manager complete.
> dbadmin #
>
> I am quite sure that Oracle is running and that the instance
> called sar3 is up. I have also run coraenv on my cshell
> environment and input sar3 as the ORACLE_SID
>
> ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
> ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.0.5
> ORACLE_SID=sar3
>