Re: List of files outside of Oracle home

From: Palooka <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:54:57 +0000
Message-ID: <kDZrl.47486$2t6.43919_at_newsfe28.ams2>

Matthias Hoys wrote:

> "Michael Austin" <maustin_at_firstdbasource.com> wrote in message 
> news:nRXrl.11827$hc1.9500_at_flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com...

>> Paulie wrote:
>>> On Mar 4, 9:02 am, matthias.h..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Oracle database 10g on Red Hat AS 4.0.
>>>> I'm looking for a list of files that Oracle installs outside of the
>>>> Oracle home.
>>>> Any others ?
>>>
>>> Interesting problem - what with files being installed with
>>> owner root as well as oracle!
>>>
>>> If you want to do this thoroughly (and have machines lying
>>> around),
>>>
>>> you might want to do a RedHat install
>>>
>>> then do a list of all the files on your system and
>>>
>>> then do an Oracle install and
>>>
>>> then compare the new list of all the files on your system using the
>>> tool of your choice.
>>>
>>> If you want all files created *_or_* modified, then
>>> do a find with -ctime or somesuch.
>>>
>>> Lotta work, but HTH.
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul...
>>>
>>>
>>>> Matthias
>>
>> grep all of the root.sh files for chown/chgrp/chmod

> 
> Yes, but is oraInst.loc installed by root.sh ?
> 
> Matthias 
> 
> 

All the files will be owned by oracle, apart from those affected by root.sh (or any other installation script run as root).

This really is not difficult. Just look at what the root scripts are doing.

Palooka Received on Thu Mar 05 2009 - 17:54:57 CST