Re: Symbolic Link Oracle8i Linux

From: David Haynes <david.haynes2_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:51:38 -0400
Message-ID: <e25nqsccdrop78dmdcjbj2ss6jrla7gtr4@4ax.com>

A symbolic link is a file system pointer to another file (or directory) To find out more about them, do a 'man ln' under linux.

For this particular problem, they are telling you to do the following:

ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/jre_116_v5 /usr/localjre

'ln' is the link command
'-s' is the symbolic link flag (there is another link of link as well) jre_116_v5 is the source directory
/usr/local/jre is the destination directory

ie: create a symbolic link between $ORACLE_HOME/jre_116_v5 and /usr/local/jre

-david-

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:28:11 GMT, thiko_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Hi Everyone
>
>What does symbolic mean in 'Create a SYMBOLIC link from /usr/local/jre
>to installed_path_of_jre/jre_116_v5' when installing Oracle 8i on a
>LINUX platform.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Thiko!
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 05:51:38 CDT