Re: Anyone running 10gR2 EM/GC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS

Charles,
from what I could get, the issue is with the JVM, it seems that it does not allow symbolic links when paths are used in a some types of classes (JNI interfaces, it seems, but I'm not a Java guy, so cannot really verify or explain much).

rgds

On 12/12/06, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As Ghassan Salem pointed out, and as many of you probably already know,
> Oracle Application Server is not supported on symbolic links. In the process
> of getting over my complete disbelief in this premise, I have to ask if
> anyone out there knows the technical reasons for this? My linux sysadmin has
> these questions that I would love to know the answers to myself:
>
> Which kernel operation are they saying can distinguish between a symlink &
> a directory?
> Will we be able to revert this change once we're done?
> Will the other machines that have /u01 need the same change?
> What command are you running that fails?
> What is the command doing that would succeed without a symlink?
>
>
> On 12/5/06, Charles Schultz < sacrophyte_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We are hitting an install problem, and the documented perquisites are so
> > far off it really makes me wonder about this whole quasi-Red Hat support. We
> > filed a case with Oracle Support, but they are giving us the run-around.
> > Next up, Duty Manager.
> >
>
>
> --
> Charles Schultz

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