Re: Opatch rant

Yep, I saw this one on our HP-UX servers. I uninstalled Apache from most of our servers in response to the long list of security issues. After all, Rule 1 of the Oracle's secure configuration doc is "Only install what is required", and we aren't using the Apache stuff. Then, when I needed to use opatch, it wouldn't run until I put the perl module back in the Apache directory even though I had a working perl on the server and in my path. Fortunately, it's relatively easy to get the perl module back in place and after that, I went to 9.2.0.6 <http://9.2.0.6> and haven't had to mess with opatch since.

Robyn

On 5/20/05, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wanna see something interesting with opatch?
> *nix: perl -cw $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch.pl
>
> Windoze: perl -cw %ORACLE_HOME%\opatch\opatch.pl
>
> Anyone else have trouble with opatch and Perl 5.8.3?
>
> Windows 2003
> Perl 5.8.3
> Opatch 1.0....52
>
> Opatch either exits with an error code that is a very long negative
> number,
> or just spits out its copyright information and quits.
>
> Interestingly, installing Perl 5.0.00503 in OH/Apache cures the problem,
> as
> the opatch.bat script will find it there and it runs happily.
>
> 5.8.3 seems to work fine on a Win2K box with the same version of opatch.
>
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