Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2019 Stopping XE 18c properly when shutting down CentOs 7 Category Oracle Database You can configure automatically start and stop Oracle XE 18c database on operating system startup and shutdown. See details from installation guide. I did install XE 18c on CentOs 7 and executed steps mentioned in installation guide. When viewing database alert.log after system reboot, noticed that database wasn't actually stopped properly. Processes were just killed. I didn't investigate more why that happens on my system. For workaround I did revert steps mentioned in installation guide and created service file for systemd. First stop XE database and revert automatically start and stop: systemctl stop oracle-xe-18c systemctl disable oracle-xe-18c Create service file: cat >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/ora-xe-18c.service << EOF [Unit] Description=Oracle 18c XE databases service After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking Restart=no KillMode=none TimeoutStopSec=10min RemainAfterExit=yes User=oracle Group=oinstall ExecStart=/opt/oracle/product/18c/dbhomeXE/bin/dbstart /opt/oracle/product/18c/dbhomeXE & ExecStop=/opt/oracle/product/18c/dbhomeXE/bin/dbshut /opt/oracle/product/18c/dbhomeXE [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF Backup and modify /etc/oratab: cp /etc/oratab /etc/oratab.backup_`date +%Y%m%d` sed -i 's/XE:\/opt\/oracle\/product\/18c\/dbhomeXE:N/XE:\/opt\/oracle\/product\/18c\/dbhomeXE:Y/g' /etc/oratab Enable new service and start XE database again: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable ora-xe-18c systemctl start ora-xe-18c