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"Bonjour" from Paris,
Do not use Symbolic Link in the ORACLE_HOME because O (it was true en 8.0.X an 7.X) uses ORACLE_HOME in order to calculate the shared segment of memoty it will used.
Oracle support recommends do not used symbolic link in ORACLE_HOME for this reason.
"Au revoir" from Paris.
Christophe Brault
Pete's a écrit :
> Another way, which is not necessarily preferrable, would be to create
> a Symbolic Link in the old $ORACLE_HOME location to point to the new
> location.
>
> HTH
> Pete's
>
> "Gerard H. Pille" <ghp_at_skynet.be> wrote in message news:<3B7C00D6.6D7FD50E_at_skynet.be>...
> > Randy Broman wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently moved my Oracle software (binaries, etc, *not* the database)
> > > from one directory to
> > > another. I changed the environment variables like $ORACLE_HOME to new
> > > location(s), but things like svrmgrl wouldn't start because
> > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set to the old location. Where is LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > > set by default?
> > >
> > > Also, any other tips on gotcha's when moving Oracle like this
> > > appreciated ...
> >
> > /etc/profile, oraenv script, scripts in /etc/profile.d, ...
> > if $ORACLE_HOME/lib is specified in /etc/ld.so.conf, you would not need
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> >
> > don't forget PATH itself, it needs $ORACLE_HOME/bin
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 08:27:28 CDT
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