Re: IMP using remote file and remsh

From: Troy Cheramie <tcheram_at_entergy.com>
Date: 1997/06/16
Message-ID: <33a5932b.26600459@netnews.prod.entergy.com>#1/1

Try Named Pipes.

1-Create an import .par file
2-mknod any_pipe_name p
3-ftp to the machine with the export file
4-bin
5-get remote_name any_pipe_name
6-Run IMP from the pipe....

On 16 Jun 97 11:47:55 GMT, "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson_at_ibm.net> wrote:

>I don't have enough disk space left to store a very large export file from
>Oracle. I would like to import this file to my database from a remote unix
>server. Can this be done?
>I have attempted to setup a symbolic link using the remote shell. ln -s
>rsh servername
>and then didn't know how to access it. How about file redirection or
>pipes.
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Scott

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Received on Mon Jun 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT