Re: Oracle 7.3.2 and NIS (szguns: getpwuid error)

Oracle Corporate Support has a very good document that describes this particular problem, and the possible solutions. It is Sol'n # 2063751.6

The basic issue is that Oracle ships MIPS ABI-compliant binaries, and SGI's default implementation of libsocket.so and libnsl.so do not implement NIS functionality.

According to the Oracle solution, you have three options:

1. Create all users locally in the /etc/passwd file (ugh)
2. soft link /usr/lib/libsocket.so and /usr/lib/lbic.so.1
3. Remove "-lsocket" and "-lnsl" and instead create "-lc" in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/sysliblist and relink all Oracle executables

Andrew Sammut wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I have been given the task of performing a 2nd oracle installation on
> an Irix 6.4 (Origin200) box. There is another instance of Oracle 7.3.2
> running on a Solaris 2.5.1 box.
>
> On the Irix installation, if I use sqlplus from an account which exists
> in
> the local password file, and try to connect to the database on the
> Solaris box, everything is happy.
>
> IF, on the other hand, I use sqlplus from a NIS account, and attempt to
> connect to the Solaris database, it reports the following error:
>
> ERROR: ORA-07268: szguns: getpwuid error.
>
> Now, all oerr reports is that an entry in the password file does not
> exist.
> Not entriely true, as it is in the NIS file.
>
> Is there a reason for this? The hack workaround is to create the account
> locally, but this is not sufficient for our purposes. Are there any
> solutions?
>
> I have used dejanews (etc) to search for a possible answer, but no
> cigar...
>
> Cheerio,
> andrew
>
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Received on Wed Mar 04 1998 - 00:00:00 CST