Re: How to programatically/dynamically update tnsnames.ora

Hi Daniel,

I should just like to say that I would never expose $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin to utl_file as there are a number of things that could be written to some of the files there that could certainly help a hacker install a backdoor. The files in this directpory are read to all by default don't make them write as well via this method.

Also the tnsnames.ora is in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin by default.

kind regards

Pete

>Forget Java. Just make $ORACLE_HOME\rdbms\admin available as a
>UTL_FILE_DIR path and read and write with UTL_FILE.
>
>For those interested ... you can do the same thing with SQL*Loader control
>files ... write them dynamically on-the-fly.
>
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