On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 07:01, Wes Brooks wrote: > The calling script will call the password.ksh to retrieve the password and > Oracle user ID. But I > have problem to retrieve the Connect String unless I have to hardcode in the > UNIX script e.g. > ORACLE_DATABASE=ABC_SID. > > Do we have a better way to handle this hard-coding? > Use the password server in the PDBA toolkit. Passwords are stored in a configuration file, and served up to clients by a server listening on a port. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/pdbatoolkit/ Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------