Re: The Denis Prize

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:11:33 -0800
Message-ID: <1075677037.260147@yasure>

Mark Townsend wrote:

>>
>> Well if Mark Townsend doesn't take the prize he should hang his head 
>> in shame.  ;-) Personally I've always thought the entire root.sh stuff 
>> was ridiculous.
>>

>
> The 10g install on Linux is pretty slick. However, due to a seperate
> permission model on Linux vs NT, there are still some fardling root
> requirements. I suggest Howard tries the 10g Linux version when it is up
> and lets us all know his experiences. Note that we focussed
> significantly on improving install in this release, pretty much driven
> by the feedback from this newsgroup - so we do try to listen. Give it a
> try and let us know.

The problem with root.sh is that in creating the Oracle user, oinstall and dba groups, oracle home (/home/oracle), and $ORACLE_HOME (/oracle/product/... ) there is plenty of time spent as root. I've yet to see anything done by root.sh that couldn't have been done at that point with a slight modification of the installation routine. It would eliminate the bouncing back-and-forth between UNIX accounts (a perpetual source of mistakes) and on systems where the DBA is not given the root password ... the need to have the SA sit around waiting for his or her two seconds of fame.

For the 10g RAC installation ... did you make the testers actually test on clean machines unlike what happened with 9i? ;-( Is the correct directory structure built on secondary nodes?

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