Re: Whither oracle home name in *nix

From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 14 Jul 2004 12:23:38 -0700
Message-ID: <d4d6f278.0407141123.43e451fb@posting.google.com>

Take a look at /var/opt/oracle there are files that point to where the oracle inventory/etc has been setup.

/var/opt/oracle $ ls

oraInst.loc srvConfig.loc
/var/opt/oracle $ more oraInst.loc

inventory_loc=/oracle/racdb/oraInventory

I did not do the install on this machine and prefer the (sometimes dull but generic) /u01/app/oracle/products/9.2.0 setup for an oracle home.

But the oracle inventory pointer (oraInst.loc) points to where the inventory is. Once oracle has been installed the inventory keeps track of what oracle home(s) exist, etc.

Personally I recommend you strongly consider yanking your current install setup and starting over you don't really want oracle software installed from a /home or /export/home directory.

Having the unix group do the software install and maintenance is fine as long as you/someone provides appropriate guidance and recommendations. You might want to consider finding/recommending a mount point that is fairly sizeable (8 gig? more?) for oracle home as you often have more than one version of oracle installed there. Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 14:23:38 CDT