Niall et al, The problem is not so much platform as much as wanting to separate the passwords from the script. Indeed, Jared's suggestion will work but I still have the passwords in the RMAN script which is what I am trying to get away from. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:22 AM To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; William Wagman; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: login.sql equivalent for RMAN If memory serves Bill is on windows rather than *nix and so that form of shell script won't work. It's perfectly possible to do the equivalent in a cmd file or my current favourite powershell. I believe there's a script language called perl that might be used as well;-) On 4/30/09, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am running Oracle 9.2.0.8.0 EE. Is there an equivalent to login.sql for >> RMAN such that I don't have to store passwords in my scripts? I have >> looked >> but am unable to find a solution. What I would like to be able to do, as I >> can do with SQL is something like create a file like RMAN_LOGIN.SQL - >> >> > This works. > > === script ==== > export RCAT=rcat > export DB=orcl > export RCAT_USERNAME=rman > export DB_USERNAME=bkup > > export RCAT_PASSWORD=password > export DB_PASSWORD=password > > $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman <<-EOF > connect target $DB_USERNAME/$DB_PASSWORD@$DB > connect catalog $RCAT_USERNAME/$RCAT_PASSWORD@$RCAT > show all; > EOF > ==================== > > Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Apr 29 16:04:36 > 2009 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. > > RMAN> > connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=57145378) > > RMAN> > connected to recovery catalog database > > RMAN> > RMAN configuration parameters are: > CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 31 DAYS; > CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default > CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO 'SBT_TAPE'; > CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; > ... > > > RMAN> > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l