Had something arise yesterday I had never given much thought to. Our
server admin was installing Oracle 9.2 on a Solaris box and told me he
had named the oracle home 'xxxx' (where 'xxxx' was a reference to the
application that will be using the db). The was not the directory
referenced by $ORACLE_HOME, but the 'oracle home name'.
Now, I know that when installing on Windows, the oracle home name gets
set into the registry and is referenced by the 'oracle home selector'
application. However, at our shop all software installs on the unix
side are done by unix server admins, so I had never had any reason to
give this bit any thought. I told the admin that we normally give the
home a name that reflects the version of Oracle -- Ora81, Ora92, etc.
But that also raised the question of where this information is stored
on Unix, and where is it actually used?
Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 07:54:32 CDT
