From owner-freebsd-database Wed Jun 6 6:41:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B660C37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f56Dgm916097; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:42:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shildret) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B1E27D7.E7891DC9@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:42:48 -0500 (CDT) From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Peter Choe Subject: Re: oracle8.1.7 on freebsd 4.3-stable Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ps -aux | grep ORCL ..you should see something like : oracle 804 0.0 0.3 134556 6820 ? S May20 0:47 ora_pmon_onc oracle 808 0.0 0.3 134076 6604 ? S May20 0:42 ora_lgwr_onc oracle 810 0.0 0.3 134096 6848 ? S May20 3:21 ora_ckpt_onc oracle 812 0.0 0.9 134004 20436 ? S May20 0:08 ora_smon_onc oracle 814 0.0 0.4 133964 9864 ? S May20 0:00 ora_reco_onc oracle 816 0.0 0.3 134456 8216 ? S May20 0:02 ora_s000_onc oracle 818 0.0 0.4 134080 9056 ? S May20 0:01 ora_d000_onc oracle 820 0.0 0.3 134132 6372 ? S May20 0:02 ora_arc0_onc try connecting to the test DB : sqlplus scott/tiger. Oracle documentation is pretty good, you can get the html pages. Check out technet.oracle.com. Question : Did you use the installer, or did you tar the files from a Linux server? On 06-Jun-01 Peter Choe wrote: > okay, > > i think that i got oracle 8i installed. but i can't seem to connect to > the database. how can i tell if the database is running. i tried to > use sqlplus to log in but i get an error saying that ORACLE is not > available. i modified the necessary files and when i do dbstart it says > ORCL is warm started. > > how can i test to see if it is actually running? how do i initially set > up users? i can't find any information about this in the > documentations. > > peter choe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Scott T. Hildreth Date: 06-Jun-01 Time: 08:36:49 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message