running oracle on solaris

[ubergeek]

Where can I more detailed information on running oracle on solaris? I've got a database here, that won't start and I don't wanna bombard you guys with questions. Thanks in advance.

[safkhan]

go to,
technet.oracle.com
(or)
otn.oracle.com

and issue the search, you'll get plenty of documents of oracle on solaris.

[sambavan]

What is the problem do you have with the install?

Sam

[ubergeek]

I'm just having a hard time manually starting the database. whenever I run the oracle executable I get a strange set of errors. when I log into svrmgr I get "Message 701 not foung: No message file for product=SVRMGR, facility=MGR",

when I try to run dbstart; I get an ORA-3114
ORA-03114: not connected to Oracle

Do I need to check my environment variables?

[sambavan]

This is because your environment was not set correctly. make sure that you have the following database environments set correctly.

ORACLE_HOME= ...,/product/oracle_versio
export ORACLE_HOME
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ORACLE_SID= SID
export ORACLE_SID

This will allow you to start the database

Sam

[ubergeek]

I've set the environment variables, and now when in server mgr, and I run the dbstart, I get an ORA-1034 Oracle not available message. How do I get it started?

Also, is there any reason why I have to keep setting my environment variables?

Thanks in advance.

[marist89]

If you set your environment variables in your .cshrc or .profile, you won't have to set them every time.