Re: uninstalling old Oracle software and empty oracle homes question

EdStevens wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > We are currently running 9.2.0.5 EntEd on AIX5L. On both our test and
> > production servers there are still 4 past installs of the older
> > versions from previous upgrades. I opened a tar with Oracle to figure
> > out the best way to remove the old software and followed their
> > instructions. The question I have is that when I first ran the
> > universal installer (OUI) It found an empty home directory. I removed
> > it as well. Now I have the 4 old OS level directories and files. When I
> > start up OUI and list the installations it only finds our current
> > install. I was leary of just deleting the old OS directories and files,
> > especially the one that showed up as empty. I think I should be able to
> > just rm -rf those directories since they don't show up in the inventory
> > screen of OUI. Does anyone know if I am correct in assuming this? I've
> > opened another SR with Oracle asking them this same question but I am
> > just not very patient with them sometimes, as it has been over a day
> > and no answer yet.
> > thanks,
> > Ben
>
> If nothing inside of Oracle, including inside the OUI, knows about a
> particular directory or file, feel free to whak it. Actually, OUI is
> pretty notorious for not really cleaning things out, leaving final
> housekeeping to the DBA. In fact, I've come to assume that, on an
> uninstall, OUI does little more than remove its own pointers, comment
> out relevant lines from ORATAB, and such.

do you know of any other way, besides looking at the inventory in OUI, to see if there are other installs? Received on Fri Jul 21 2006 - 13:23:49 CDT