Re: Specify inventory pointer location
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:49:04 +0100
Message-ID: <4b4e6a05$0$28586$e4fe514c_at_dreader12.news.xs4all.nl>
zigzagdna wrote:
> On Jan 13, 5:22 pm, Sybrand Bakker <sybra..._at_hccnet.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:37:35 -0800 (PST), zigzagdna
>>
>> <zigzag..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I am Oracle 11g 11.1 on HP UNIX 11i. I see Oracle provides invPtrLoc
>>> in some command such as runIntaller and Opatch.
>>> -invPtrLoc $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory/oraInst.loc
>>
>>> However when I go to run emca to configure db control it does not
>>> recognize this parameter. I know using symbolic links one can get
>>> around it, but symbolic link requires Sys Admin help. Is there any
>>> other work around for it. I was looking for a UNIX environment
>>> variable, could not find one.
>>
>> Is there any reason you multipost this on both forums.oracle.com and
>> this newsgroup?
>> Wouldn't it be quicker to read documentation and/or the emca cript
>> and toirecognize emca doesn't use the inventory at all?
>> Or do you really like to earn as much as possible by doing as little
>> as possible?
>>
>> --
>> Sybrand Bakker
>> Senior Oracle DBA
>
> emca logs shows eoor that inventory cannot/etc/orainSt.log or so be
> found, so not sure whether it uses it or not.
Are you sure you are on HPUX, not on Linux?
According the respective Installation Guides, HPUX uses /var/opt/oracle to
store the Oracle inventory pointer file (oraInst.loc), while Linux uses /etc
to do the same.
HPUX:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32072/app_nonint.htm#CIHGCBHA
Linux:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32002/app_nonint.htm#CIHGCBHA
(In the Linux version, the first mkdir-command seems a bit odd to me; probably an error in the doc)
A similar but different workaround is described at the Pythian Blog,
describing an 11g install on Ubuntu:
http://www.pythian.com/news/549/installing-oracle-11g-on-ubuntu-linux-704/
(search for the comment made by "Alberto Tagliaferri")
Cheers!
-- JeroenReceived on Wed Jan 13 2010 - 18:49:04 CST