I have installed Oracle Apps R12 by following the tutorial on this website. Could someone tell me if there is a way to avoid having to start Oracle Apps each time, having to run scripts on the Terminal, when I want to login and do some work? Thank you.

Hello gavrobere,

As far as I know, there is NO other way.
If you shut it down, you need to bring it up.
Unless, you want to shut it down once per week and bring it up once per week.
I personally bring things up 1 at a time, just in case there are problems that I encounter.

Maybe, someone else knows... I personally don't think there is a way.
SORRY :(

Hi fhorvath,
Thank you for your reply where you said, I quote: " If you shut it down, you need to bring it up." Were you talking about shuting down the Database services, the LISTENER and the Applications service? Or, were you talking about shuting down the machine itself (the laptop) completely? This is because, my question was about STARTING the Database services, the LISTENER and the Applications services purely because you have just switched off your laptop and restarted it, and then login to Enterprise Linux. Thank you.

If you want Oracle services to start up automatically when you start up your linux OS then why dont you:

1) Put all start the commands (addbctl start, addlnctl start PROD, adstrtal.sh apps/apps) in one executable file, say startall.sh
2) Put an entry for calling startall.sh in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Theoretically it should work. I have not tried it myself.

"/etc/rc.d/rc.local" is called every time you boot your linux os.

Hasan