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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Is this the best way to start Oracle?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[root@localhost system]# cat oracle-foo.service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[Unit]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Description=oracle db - foo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>After=syslog.target<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[Service]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Environment=ORACLE_SID=foo ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/Ora12c/db<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ExecStart=/bin/ksh -c 'print "connect / as sysdba \n startup \n quit" | $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -silent /nolog'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ExecStop=/bin/ksh -c 'print "connect / as sysdba \n shutdown immediate \n quit" | $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -silent /nolog'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Type=forking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>User=oracle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Group=dba<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[Install]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>WantedBy=multi-user.target<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>#This file should be placed in /etc/systemd/system<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>#enable for start at boot by: systemctl enable oracle_db-foo.service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I used to do it with an init.d script that grabbed the SID out of argv[0] with ORACLE_SID=${0##*-} – I’m assuming that a systemd service file can’t grab anything similarly out of argv[0], and I can’t hard-link them all together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I may have several instances on a machine; I’d like one service to start/stop everything if possible (maybe with dbstart/dbshut), but I also want granular control over each Oracle instance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>