Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: 9iR2 on SuSE - where is oratab?

Re: 9iR2 on SuSE - where is oratab?

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:11:46 GMT
Message-ID: <3F6377A3.41DAC999@telusplanet.net>

Zafer AKTAN wrote:

> Glen A Stromquist wrote:
>
> > After some minor hair-pulling I've managed to get the 9i software
> > installed on SuSE 7.3 pro, despite mysteriously losing the functionality
> > of "su" somehow near the end of the install.(I had to log out and back
> > in as root to run the root.sh script then do a manual "relink all") But
> > I'm missing the oratab file, I found this out when after using dbca to
> > create some basic create scripts it goes ahead and tries to create the
> > database anyway.
> >
> > Thinking back thru the install I *think* that I may have accidentally
> > ran the root.sh script rather than the orainstRoot.sh script when
> > prompted to. I think that this would also explain why the universal
> > installer does not see anything installed when I get it to check for
> > installed products (I was going to blow it all away and redo from
> > scratch, *taking notes this time*)
> >
> > I cant find the orainstRoot.sh file so I'm assuming that its
> > created/deleted during the install? Can I run it again (if I find it) or
> > should I just take the oratab file from an 8i install on SuSE and edit
> > it. There is also the issue of the inventory pointer that I think the
> > .sh script creates. I'd like to probably do a re-install just for the
> > sake of it, but I'd like to have the OUI do the de-install first.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> >
> I have not installed 9i on SuSE, but on Red Hat Linux the oratab file is
> located under the /etc directory. Check it out, maybe installing it
> there under SuSE Linux too.
> hope this proves helpful
> regards
> Zafer AKTAN
> Oracle DBA/Developer

SLES8 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) = /etc/oratab Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 15:11:46 CDT

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US