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We have two init.ora files for our QA instance and startup is failing as the database is looking at the wrong file to start.
1. $ORACLE_HOME/dbs has initqa.ora
2. $ORACLE_ADMIN/pfile has iniqa.ora
I need to create a symbolic link in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs to point to $ORACLE_ADMIN/pfile/initqa.ora
I tried ln -s. It didn't create the link. Could someone give me the correct command? Thanks.
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use IFILE in your dbs/init... file :
IFILE=$ORACLE_ADMIN/pfile
so that way he will open dbs/initSID.ora, which is normal, and point to the righe one.
PS : to create a link :
ln -s target link_name
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For the link:
cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
ln -s $ORACLE_ADMIN/pfile/initqa.ora .