Oracle-L: RE: multiple oracle homes

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:31:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005477E5.20030207113124@fatcity.com>

Richard - It was more like Jay mentioned. Just problems with file permissions. It just always seem to be biting me at every turn. I finally got everything over to the Oracle username. The other issue is that my guess is that the Oracle developers test everything with the Oracle username. So if you use a different username you stand a slight chance of discovering something that hadn't turned up before. Again, this was just my experience and I never had a reason to use separate userids since. If they work well for you, maybe your advice is just what Ray needs to hear.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dennis,

What bad experience did you had? I wouldn't recommend it but I had no problem when I run both 32 bit and 64 bit 8.1.7.4 on the same box using that approch.

Thanks

Richard

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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Ray - My 2 cents worth. Don't ever use another username besides Oracle. Had a bad experience :-)

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:24 AM
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:08:55AM -0800, Ray Stell wrote:

> 
> Where is it well documented how to install multiple server versions,
> 8i and 9i, on the same unix server?

Thanks for you replies. I've never tried this before and it seems like there are two different approaches on the surface:

use two different userids, ora817 and ora920, to do the install. This seems stupid, since it replicates the product directory structure and oraInventory stuff under different ownership. This might be safer since it is like running one version in that everything is seperate, but maybe there are operational issues to not using the oracle userid. Seems like there may be a gotcha waiting in the wings. Like maybe you can't run the same listener for both, or worse.
use the same oracle userid for both installs and change the environment vars as needed. Seems like you could damage the first install if you made a mistake. Also, it seems like in a stressful failure situation you don't want to have to think about who's on first? I don't know, third base.

Are both paths valid?

Ray Stell stellr_at_vt.edu (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D
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