mandarkelkar

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• Jun 5th, 2008

 

This file is used by ORACLE utilities.  It is created by root.sh and updated by the Database Configuration Assistant when creating a database.

A colon, ':', is used as the field terminator.  A new line terminates the entry.  Lines beginning with a pound sign, '#', are comments.

Entries are of the form:
                $ORACLE_SID:$ORACLE_HOME:<N|Y>:

The first and second fields are the system identifier and home directory of the database respectively.  The third filed indicates to the dbstart utility that the database should , "Y", or should not, "N", be brought up at system boot time.

Multiple entries with the same $ORACLE_SID are not allowed.

Regards,
Mandar