Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!dfw-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Vince Laurent Newsgroups: de.alt.comp.sap-r3,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle Patch woes Message-ID: References: <5ri0luc2stnn780pdichnvpe5d5eerro8c@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 07:44:46 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.217.149.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: dfw-read.news.verio.net 1028810773 199.217.149.3 (Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:46:13 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:46:13 GMT Organization: NTT/Verio Xref: easynews de.alt.comp.sap-r3:32302 comp.databases.oracle.server:157262 X-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 05:41:54 MST (news.easynews.com) Solved! Seems the installer created a 0 byte unix.rgs file. So when I went to install the patch nothing looked installed. I had to run the installer and UPGRADE the software to the original software and then the patching worked. Go figure... On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 17:20:18 -0500, Vince Laurent wrote: >I completed a SAP install fresh from the CDs for Oracle/HP_UX64. The >SAP system works, the Omniback backup works, everything starts and >stops OK >