Re: Oracle on Linux, File placement conventions?

none wrote:

> I just installed 10.1.0.3 on linux. What is the conventional location
> to stick the software? On HP I alway put it in /opt/oracle/product...
> but on Linux it seems people put stuff in /var.

Not really. /opt would be more appropriate. See:

http://web.whittier.edu/jlutgen/rute/node38.html#SECTION003810000000000000000

although Oracle seems to be quite happy with /u<nn>, which means absolutely nothing as it is a simple convention.

> So my question is: Is there a convention agreed upon for where to place
> the Oracle software on Linux?

Well, see the sentence with the "convention" word above... I don't like it: it should be /opt. But heck, it's just me speaking out, so there!

> Related - On linux dbhome, dbshut, dbstart look in
> /var/opt/oracle/oratab for the oratab, but the oratab is created in the
> standard /etc/oratab.

Those scripts were originally created in a very old Solaris (SunOS?) version. Where /var/opt/oracle seems to be the "standard" placement although (as usual) only Sun follows that "standard"... One thing you can is use a symbolic link to make /var/opt/oracle/oratab be the same as /etc/oratab and be done with it. IIRC, that's what the HPUX install does by default.

> question: How are people addressing this? Are you editing the
> dbshut/start to look in /etc/oratab, or are you: ln -s
> /var/opt/oracle/oratab /etc/oratab, or solving this in some other manner?

The second. As above. Received on Sun Jun 05 2005 - 19:57:21 CDT