Re: symlinks/OUI
- From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: stellr@xxxxxxxxxx, oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:12:31 +0800
Which part of "/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib/stubs" is a symlink ?
I have used symlinks for ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME and even
$ORACLE_HOME/lib , $ORACLE_HOME/javavm and $ORACLE_HOME/starterdb
{not sure if I've moved $ORACLE_HOME/bin}
In my opinion, Oracle not working with symlinks is an urban legend,
even propagated by MetaLink. A symlink is managed by the Unix filesystem.
"oracle" is only a user trying to access a file through the symlink.
The places where you can have issues are
tar/cpio/cp -r commands which follow symlinks and copy the whole directories.
Oracle itself uses links.
$ORACLE_HOME/JRE is a link to the OUI jre which I put under $ORACLE_BASE
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/runInstaller is a link to to the runInstaller under
$ORACLE_BASE/oui
At 03:42 AM Thursday, Ray Stell wrote:
I discovered I had a corrupted oraInventory. I was not able to install
or delete software. Somewhere in the discussion with ora support the
analyst said, "OUI doesn't handle symlinks well," suggesting that my
use of a symlink to oracle_home may have caused the corruption.
I did find things like this in oraInventory/logs/oraInstallxxx.err:
Ignoring Exception during
de-installoracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilDeinstallException:
Unable to delete file /opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib/stubs/libc.so
and sure enough, this directory structure here is a symlink."
Is this documented?
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