Re: Whither oracle home name in *nix

From: Ronald Rood <devnull_at_ronr.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:17:17 +0200
Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0407141514110.7333@ronald-g4.local>

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Ed Stevens wrote:

> Now, I know that when installing on Windows, the oracle home name gets
> set into the registry and is referenced by the 'oracle home selector'
> application. However, at our shop all software installs on the unix
> side are done by unix server admins, so I had never had any reason to
> give this bit any thought. I told the admin that we normally give the
> home a name that reflects the version of Oracle -- Ora81, Ora92, etc.
> But that also raised the question of where this information is stored
> on Unix, and where is it actually used?
>

On unix the oracle home name has no meaning. The combination (/var/opt/oracle/oratab or /etc/oratab) and oraenv with dbhome are used to select the software-tree (ORACLE_HOME) for the specified database (ORACLE_SID). Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in PATH and that dbhome, oraenv and coraenv get installed here by the root.sh script.

Ronald.

http://homepage.mac.com/ik_zelf/oracle Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 08:17:17 CDT