Automatic Start and Stop of Oracle on LINUX

Here's a script to do automatic start and stop of an Oracle instance running on Linux. Note the change of startup and shutdown for 11gR2. I'm sticking with the dbstart and dbshut method until its removed

http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/automating-database-startup-and-shutdown-on-linux.php

Oracle 11gR2 Links

Oracle Documents permanently on my Kindle -

Oracle 11gR2 home
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage

Oracle 11gR2 Admin Guide
PDF - http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/to_pdf?pathname=server.112/e25494.pdf


Oracle Database Administrator's Reference 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux and UNIX-Based Operating Systems
HTML - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10839/toc.htm
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18283_01/server.112/e10839.pdf

Oracle Database Utilities
PDfF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e22490.pdf

Oracle pl/sql Packages and Types Reference
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788.pdf

Oracle Security Guide
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e16543.pdf

Oracle SQL Language Reference
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088.pdf

Oracle VLDB and Partitioining (Very Large Database Guide)
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25523.pdf

Oracle Recovery and Backup User's Guide
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642.pdf

Oracle Recovery and Backup Reference Guide
PDF - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10643.pdf

Oracle Tuning Guide on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5 and Oracle 10)
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/pdf/Tuning_and_Optimizing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Oracle_9i_and_10g_Databases/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-5-Tuning_and_Optimizing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Oracle_9i_and_10g_Databases-en-US.pdf