Re: Specify inventory pointer location
From: zigzagdna <zigzagdna_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:22:44 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a0e2cfe9-ac03-407c-820c-50d28c42097d_at_21g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 13, 7:49 pm, "The Boss" <use..._at_No.Spam.Please.invalid> wrote:
> 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_n...
> Linux:http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32002/app_n...
>
> (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...
> (search for the comment made by "Alberto Tagliaferri")
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Jeroen- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
I am on HPO-U and directory for inventory is /var/opt/oracle. Since I do not keep inventory here, I got mixed up.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:22:44 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a0e2cfe9-ac03-407c-820c-50d28c42097d_at_21g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 13, 7:49 pm, "The Boss" <use..._at_No.Spam.Please.invalid> wrote:
> 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_n...
> Linux:http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32002/app_n...
>
> (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...
> (search for the comment made by "Alberto Tagliaferri")
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Jeroen- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
I am on HPO-U and directory for inventory is /var/opt/oracle. Since I do not keep inventory here, I got mixed up.
It seems despite the error message in emconfig.log for inventory, db control does get created because it is working for me. Received on Wed Jan 13 2010 - 20:22:44 CST