Re: Cygwin for use on Oracle Servers

  • From: Maria Gurenich <gurenich@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:45:58 -0400

I am using cygwin on windows to connect to my linux boxes for ages. works
pretty simple, sometimes xhost + should be issued on the server side though
in order to allow X connections. that's pretty much it for me.



On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It seems the windows servers are going to proliferate here. (sigh)
>
> There are a number of you that are regularly using Cygwin on windows
> servers so as to have a decent scripting and cmd line environment.
>
> While I have used Cygwin casually on my own laptop for use with
> Oracle, I have never made serious use of it.
>
> If you have any tips to offer (ie. hard learned lessons) for using Cygwin
> it would be appreciated.  If I learn enough I can consolidate it into
> a blog entry.
>
> Some examples of what I am looking for:
>
> How do you set up the PATH?  (linux style or DOS style directories in
> PATH?)
>
> Any tricks to setting up the Oracle ENV variables?
>
> etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com
>
>

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