On my experience as a unix sysdamin, init is the process managing the start of services, configuring it requires root privileges..... *but* if (as oracle user) you create a crontab (...really this requires root to put oracle into /etc/cron.allow....) with a periodic (1 minute) check for dbms active or not and, in case start it, you can achieve the task to start oracle db at least 1 minute after the system boot; in any case, the problem will be how to close the db before shutting down the system. My question is: why your sysadmin cannot configure the autostart? Alessandro > Thank you, that is the question I had. Is it possible to configure a server > to allow users without root privileges to set a database to auto-start in > unix? > > > > > >From: "David Sharples" <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx > >To: Lee.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx > >CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: Re: Oracle database auto-start on Unix > >Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 20:17:55 +0100 > > > >and how do you expect to use the oratab if you dont have priveleges to put > >scripts into /etc/init.d ? > > > >On 04/05/06, Robertson Lee - lerobe <Lee.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>RTFM > >> > >>/etc/oratab > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l