Re: If we change the root shell to csh on Solaris, is this likely to be supported by Oracle?

michael.crawford_at_bbc.co.uk (Mike Crawford) wrote

> Our hosting facility is proposing we change the root shell on Solaris
> 9 from the standard Bourne shell which comes standard with Solaris to
> the C shell.
>
> Does anyone know if this would be supported by Oracle under our
> support contract?

Mike, I doubt that this has any impact at all on Oracle. Oracle executables are started from a shell (sqlplus, listener, etc.), but that is it. The only requirements being a valid Unix environment to run in.

Personally I prefer ksh on Solaris (with an export EDITOR=vi). And have been using it for some years now with Oracle gateway software - without any problems.

The decision on what shell to use should IMO be rather based on shell scripting and shell functionaility that *you* need, as oppose to taking Oracle or product ABC into consideration as these should not be shell specific or dependant.

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Billy