Re: Oracle support: we give up
Date: 6 Jan 1995 19:23:55 GMT
Message-ID: <3ek5cb$elc_at_dcsun4.us.oracle.com>
>>In article <D17u2H.oFr_at_pen.k12.va.us> epperson_at_pen.k12.va.us (W. C. Epperson)
>>writes:
>>Our attempts to upgrade from 6.0.36 to 6.0.37 in order to maintain V6 support
>>while we plan our V7 migration have been futile. Oracle Support has been less
>>than worthless through the entire effort, which is typical of our experience
>>with their service offerings. We currently find that although SQLdba and
>>SQLPlus recognize and use the connect string in the TWO_TASK environment
>>variable, the other tools do not. We got to this point of buggy functionality
>>only by hacking our way through install scripts and makefiles with syntax
>>errors and brain-dead logic ("chmod 644 $file;./$file").
>
>What! Are you actually trying to use oracle's install scripts? Don't do that;
>they never work. You have to reverse engineer the whole thing and create your
>own install scripts (you can have a working V6 database that takes up
>about 10MB disk space (plus database) for the /usr/oracle directory).
>
>My favorite one is when installing Oracle V7.1.3 on AIX (sucks) from a CD,
>Oracle's install script tries to create temporary files on the CD!
With respect to 7.1.3 CD-ROM on AIX the only scenario I can think of where the installer would try to write to the CD-ROM is if the user doesn't read the docs and tries to run orainst directly off the CD-ROM. In this case orainst would attempt to write 'rootpre.tmp' in the current working directory, which is of course the CD_ROM (Don't worry it's fixed in 7.1.4). Does this sound familiar? If it doesn't let me know what the problem was and I'll see if I can get it fixed by the appropriate persons.
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>>
>>W.C. Epperson "These are my opinions and not those of
>>Sr. SE the Virginia Department of Education."
>>Va. Dept. of Ed.
>
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Oracle Corporation Received on Fri Jan 06 1995 - 20:23:55 CET