Thanks Jeff. On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 06:17, Jeff Herrick wrote: > The reason for this is that all service processes inherit > the evironment from SERVICES.EXE the Service Control Manager. > Since this process only reads its environment once at boot time, > changes to the environment are only seen by _services_ after a reboot. > > But I think the answer to the initial reboot issue is the mass > of DLL's that MS needs to change. Oracle brings all of their > own 'new' DLL's whilst MS needs to change a bunch that belong to > the base O/S (e.g. OLE, MFC, MDAC)....and they might be loaded. > > Cheers > > Jeff Herrick > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Jared Still wrote: > > > I suspect that the mandatory reboot has more to do > > with changes to the environment than the registry. > > > > A change to the registry should not require a reboot. > > > > Adding a service however may require a reboot, as I > > the believe that they run in the environment created > > at boot time. > > > > I could be wrong about this, but experience seems to > > confirm it for me. > > > > Jared > > > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 05:34, Hemant K Chitale wrote: > > > Because MS has made it a habit to require a reboot ! > > > I guess their installers always update the "internals" of the [icky/dicey] > > > Registry > > > while "foreign" products only touch the public portions of the Registry > > > > > > Hemant > > > At 10:59 AM 03-02-04 -0500, you wrote: > > > >No reboots needed when installing Oracle on Windows. > > > > > > > >Actually, this always puzzled me, that you have to reboot when > > > >installing MSSQL (kind of "native" product) on Windows, and you don't > > > >have to do this when installing Oracle ("foreign" product) on Windows. > > > > > > > >Igor Neyman, OCP DBA > > > >ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > > >From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick > > > >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:16 AM > > > >To: Pete Finnigan > > > >Subject: Re[2]: Will 10g install on any Linux??? > > > > > > > >Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 8:33:18 AM, Pete Finnigan > > > >(oracle_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >PF> Check out Howard Rogers $5000 prize for anyone who will write a new > > > >PF> installer for Oracle on linux that installs just like windows > > > > > > > >You mean complete with multiple reboots? <grin> > > > > > > > >Best regards, > > > > > > > >Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are > > > >http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > >Join the Oracle-article list and receive one > > > >article on Oracle technologies per month by > > > >email. 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