Re: Problems installing Oracle products. PATH variable too long?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:11:51 -0700
Message-ID: <1144365110.137505@yasure.drizzle.com>

Jim Smith wrote:

> In message <1144261231.881570_at_yasure.drizzle.com>, DA Morgan 
> <damorgan_at_psoug.org> writes

>> ginolard_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>> Thanks for the replies but I'm afraid it doesn't help a great deal.
>>> The problem is that we have quite a lot of Oracle products (BI Tools,
>>> Warehouse Builder, Designer, Jdeveloper etc) and each of these products
>>> add their own entries to the PATH variable. Each product is packaged
>>> for silent installation via our Altiris software distribution system so
>>> it's not like I can manually change the path for each machine that
>>> receives the product (that would be over 200 machines!).
>>> I don't MIND the path being longer but I don't understand why there's
>>> this limitation of 1023 characters.
>>> XP SP2 increases the length of the PATH variable to 2048 chars, that's
>>> all.
>>
>> You have less on your machine than I have on mine. FAR LESS!
>>
>> And XP SP2 does NOT do what you claim. I have XP SP2 on my machine. I
>> have the database. I have the entire Developer Suite including
>> JDeveloper. I have Oracle and other products you've likely never even
>> heard of. My path is far less than 1000 characters.
>>
>> Instead of telling us what you can't do ... copy the path into a post
>> and show it to us.

> 
> Do try and apply a bit of common sense before you fly off the handle.
> 
> XP SP2 increases the maximum size of the PATH variable to 2048. The OP 
> wants to know why OUI complains about the PATH being longer than 1023 
> and if there is anything he can do about it.  Can you provide any useful 
> input on that or are you just ranting?

Not flying off the handle and amazingly enough I can read.

I can read posts and I can count characters.

Here's a PATH variable from an XP SP2 machine.

START RUN cmd
C:\documents and Settings\Owner> path > c:\temp\path.txt

PATH=c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jdk\jre\bin\classic;

c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jdk\jre\bin;
c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jdk\jre\bin\client;
c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jlib;
c:\oracle\product\OraDev\bin;
c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;
c:\oracle\product\OraDev\jre\1.4.2\bin;
C:\oracle\product\oraHTTP\bin;
C:\oracle\product\oraHTTP\jlib;
C:\oracle\product\ora102\bin;
C:\PROGRAM FILES\THINKPAD\UTILITIES;
C:\windows\system32;
C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;
C:\Program Files\PC-Doctor for Windows\services;
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared;

I count 558 characters. Microsoft Word's toolset agrees. Do you see 2048 characters?

The machine has 3 Oracle homes with the following: Oracle 10gR2 database
JDeveloper
Oracle Forms
Oracle Reports
OC4J
Apache

Now you can accuse me of a rant if you wish but that won't solve the problem. We need to see the actual PATH ... not some statement about how XP SP2 increases the length of the PATH variable to 2048 chars. That is if the point of this is to solve the problem.

My OUI has no problem. Neither it seems do a lot of other people's OUI. So the problem is not XP SP2.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)

Received on Thu Apr 06 2006 - 18:11:51 CDT