RE: Re[2]: Will 10g install on any Linux???

Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:25:42 -0800

Yes, I did consider that.

Nonetheless, I have been required to reboot Win2k
boxes at times when a change in the environment needed
to be recognized by a service, and stopping/starting
the service wouldn't do it.

If I can recall the exact circumstances I will post them.

Jared

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 06:12, Niall Litchfield wrote:
> I must be missing something here since Oracle can create and run a service =
> without a reboot, in fact lsnrctl can create a service for the listener fro=
> m just the info in a freshly created listener.ora. Perhaps they know someth=
> ing that the MS guys don't :) Like how to write software...=20
> Niall Litchfield
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx=20
> Sent: 04 February 2004 14:03
> To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Will 10g install on any Linux???
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> 
> 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=20
> > [icky/dicey]
> > Registry
> > while "foreign" products only touch the public portions of the Registry
> >=20
> > 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=20
> > >installing MSSQL (kind of "native" product) on Windows, and you don't=20
> > >have to do this when installing Oracle ("foreign" product) on=20
> > >Windows.
> > >
> > >Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> > >ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> > >[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=20
> > >PF> new installer for Oracle on linux that installs just like windows
> > >
> > >You mean complete with multiple reboots? <grin>
> > >
> > >Best regards,
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