Re: installation problem 9i

sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl schreef:

> There is one sound reason NOT to do this: opatch won't work anymore if
> you have different installations under different users, as the
> installer will change ownership of orainventory, of which you have
> only one, regardless of the number of Oracle Homes used.

Sybrand,

this is nonsense.
Your orainventory directory is pointed to by means of the oraInst.loc file.
The location of this file, in turn, can be specified when installing - even when using opatch.

In short: several oraInst.loc files, different oraInventories. Just make sure you never, ever forget to specify it, or else the default will be used...

Now, whether this is a wise thing to do, is another story. But there are situations thinkable in which it is common to have several inventories, under different owners. Cold failover clusters would be one.

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...