It would if you had all of the oracle homes defined correctly in the oratab. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Latham Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:41 PM To: wts@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Iotzov, Iordan; oracle-l Subject: Re: Multiversion startup script for linux That wouldn't make several versions start just several instances of the same version. On 17/07/2012, Wayne Smith <wts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, my "all" should have been "all with a Y in oratab". > Cheers, Wayne > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Iotzov, Iordan > <IIotzov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote, in part: > >> I believe there is a flag (Y/N) for a every oratab database entry >> that indicates whether or not the respective DB would be affected by >> "dbstart" >> and "dbshut". >> > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Howard A. Latham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l