I have a simple script to startup/shutdown Oracle database at boot time. I
put this script under /etc/rd.d/init.d. Then I created a symbolic link in
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S88Oracle and /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K88Oracle linking to my
script.

When the default run level is set to 3, Oracle is started up ok. But when I
change the default run level to 5, the script is not invoked. Also, in both
default levels (3 and 5), the script is not invoked with "stop" passed in.
I verified this by looking on the startup console and also in
/var/log/messages file.

Apparently, when default level is 5, some (not all) startup scripts in
level 3 are skipped for some reasons.

I'm using:

SysVinit-2.77-2
initscripts-4.7.0-1

My script is attached:

#!/bin/sh

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/8i/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5
ORACLE_OWNER=oracle

case "$1" in
start)
	echo -n "Starting ORACLE:"

	if [ ! -f $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart ]
	then
		failure "Oracle startup"
	fi

	# additional swap file
	/sbin/swapon /var/swap

	# bring up/down ORACLE
	su - $ORACLE_OWNER -c $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart &

	success "Oracle startup"
	;;

stop)
	echo -n "Shutting down ORACLE:"

	su - $ORACLE_OWNER -c $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut &

	/sbin/swapoff /var/swap

	success "Oracle shutdown"
	;;
esac