RE: Oracle Names - Loading tnsnames.ora automatically on Windoze

Stephen,

ListGuru - the Guru of all Lists! - seems to have filtered out all the contents of your attachment. Maybe Jared and Bruce can (al)locate a repository somewhere where these can be dumped in for others to read/sace?

John Kanagaraj

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karniotis, Stephen [mailto:Stephen_Karniotis_at_compuware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Oracle Names - Loading tnsnames.ora automatically on
> Windoze
>
>
> Jared:
>
> Not sure what the real problem is. When names starts, it
> can start with
> either an administrative database or use external (dynamic)
> loading of the
> tns file. What problems are you having?
>
> Here is a white paper I wrote for configuring this. See
> if this helps.
>
> <<IOUG Paper 103.doc>> <<Presentation103.ppt>>
>
> Thank You
>
> Stephen P. Karniotis
> Product Architect
> Compuware Corporation
> Direct: (248) 865-4350
> Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> Email: Stephen.Karniotis_at_Compuware.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:28 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Oracle Names - Loading tnsnames.ora
> automatically on Windoze
>
> Hey list!
>
> Once again I find myself doing far more work than should be necessary
> to do something on Windoze that is simple on Unix.
>
> Here's what I need to do: When the Oracle Names service is started
> after a reboot, I want it to load tnsnames.ora automatically.
>
> This sounds simple enough, but apparently it is not. The executable
> that runs the names service is NAMES.EXE. This does not seem
> to have any documented command line parameters. I tried hacking
> the registry to add a command file as can be done with NAMESCTL.EXE,
> but NAMES.EXE just ignores it.
>
> I *did* create a solution to this, but I really don't like to
> do it this
> way.
>
> Using Perl ( what else? ) with the Win32::Daemon module, I created
> a load_tnsnames.pl Perl service. This works, but it really seems like
> overkill for something that should be so simple. It also
> means I have
> to productionize and document it.
>
> That's more work than the Perl was.
>
> Anyone ever succeeded at doing this?
>
> And yes, I know Oracle Names is at the terminal release in 9i, and I
> don't care. ;)
>
> Jared
>
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