This is mostly a style question: in the bpstart_notify & bpend_norify scripts, 
is it better simply to point to another shell script written by someone else -- 
e.g., an Oracle startup script -- or to reproduce the actual commands within 
the NBU script?
   I run NBU 3.4 on Solaris, and the DBAs keep adding and deleting Oracle 
database instances. While it's nice that they change the /etc/init.d/dbstart & 
dbshut scripts to ensure that their database are handled neatly on system boot 
and shut-down, I would really like it if they'd let me know so I can change the 
bpstart_notify & bpend_notify scripts to match. [Yes, I know it's a people 
issue and not a technical one, but bear with me.] Currently, I simply include 
all the same lines as the /etc/init.d scripts that the DBAs modify, but 
wouldn't I remove a source of possible error by just including the one line 
"/etc/init.d/dbstart >> /dev/null" in my bpend_notify script?
   Thanks to anyone who will clobber some common sense into me on this.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI