Master URL: http://www.novell.com/oracle/
Also check: http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Orarun_package
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Name        : orarun                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.9                               Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 21.15                         Build Date: Thu 03 May 2007 06:26:17 AM PDT
Install Date: Mon 01 Jan 2001 01:46:38 AM PST      Build Host: roth.suse.de
Group       : Productivity/Databases/Tools   Source RPM: orarun-1.9-21.15.src.rpm
Size        : 55846                            License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 03 May 2007 06:31:00 AM PDT, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL         : http://www.novell.com/oracle/
Summary     : An Environment for Running Oracle Products
Description :
This package creates the user and the groups for Oracle, sets the
Oracle environment variables, sets kernel parameters to values
recommended by Oracle, and provides for automated start and stop of
Oracle components at system start and stop time. It also includes
dependencies for other software packages needed to install and use
Oracle, so that when you select this package the other packages are
included automatically (when you install via YaST2) or that you are at
least reminded to install them (when installing via the rpm command).
This package is not required for running Oracle but it simplifies
things significantly.

You can edit all settings via YaST2.

http://www.novell.com/oracle/

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Edit /etc/profile.d/oracle.[c]sh to reflect your particular environment
(e.g. ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID).

Edit /etc/sysconfig/oracle (SuSE Linux 7.3 and earlier incl. SLES-7: use
/etc/rc.config.d/oracle.rc.config) if you use the automated
startup/shutdown feature AND to set the kernel values for semaphores
and shared memory according to the Oracle instructions for Linux
(probably in the ReleaseNotes for the Oracle product).

NOTE: The setting of the kernel parameters is independent of whether or 
not Oracle is started by the script. Both functionalities - setting of
the kernel parameters and start/stop of Oracle daemons - are controlled
and operate independently, but in the same script (/etc/init.d/oracle).

Also note that for automated startup/shutdown you must also set the
line for your database in the Oracle file /etc/oratab to "Y" (last letter)
or nothing will happen, since our script uses the standard Oracle provided
script "dbstart" to do the database startup.


Should you want to start an Oracle facility not yet included in this 
/etc/init.d/oracle script it is easy to add: 
- start by adding START_ variables to /etc/sysconfig/oracle (SuSE Linux 7.3
  and earlier incl. SLES-7: use /etc/rc.config.d/oracle.rc.config)
- edit and go to the bottom of script	/etc/init.d/oracle, the one that
  does the actual work, and use one of the lines in "start)" and 
	in "stop)" as a template for what you want to add. It is one (long) line
	per service (e.g. the listener), you may want to disable line wrapping
	for easier navigation within this code.
- If you have suggestion to include, then please file improvement request at bugzilla.novell.com.


What this package does:
- creates a user "oracle" and groups "dba, oinstall" - with fixed ids
- provides several symlinks for some Oracle products that expect e.g.
  the shell in non-standard places
- create all 255 possible raw device files in /dev/raw/
- installs and activates a SysV start/stop script for automated Oracle
  start/stop plus Oracle components like OCFS (cluster filesystem for
  Oracle RAC) or the Oracle Apache webserver
- the SysV script tries to guess ORACLE_HOME from /etc/oratab if it's
  not set in /etc/profile.d/oracle
- the /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh script has some logic to add /opt/gcc295/bin
  in front of the path if gcc_old is installed, and to set "ulimit", both
  only for user "oracle"
- the SysV script sets ulimits, together with the ulimit setting in 
  /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh this ensures that Oracle gets the right limits
  for max. number of files it can open and the like when started using 
  this SysV script
- the SysV script does some sanity checks, like checking if a component
  that it's been told to start is really installed 
- During installation of orarun two entries for user oracle are added to
  file /etc/security/limits.conf. This file is only for users logging in
  via "login", "su" and the like do not use those settings!