Hi,

i tried to startup an Oracle instance (version 8) on WinNT 4.0 setting the services in Regedit to Manually, created a CMD. with following sentence:
oradim -startup -sid XXX -usrpwd ORACLE -pfile f:\XXX\pfile\initXXX.ora -starttype srvc,inst

put it in the ...Micorsoft/system/Winlogon as a command and it doesn't function.

I recieved following message in the oradim.log:
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Oradim80: Command Line Mode.
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Please specify service or instance to start.
****************************************

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?`

Is there a better way to startup automatically an oracle instance? I' tried it with the automatically way and didn't function.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Uiyi