support for 8i has been extended to 12/31/2004
- "Caffrey, Melanie" <mcaffrey_at_proximo.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> My question is a little off-topic here, but since Ron has already
> discovered the source of his problem ...
>
> You state below that Oracle has "extended support for a year of
> 8.1.7".
>
> What do you mean exactly? For instance, when does support actually
> end, then?
>
> The reason I ask is that the word from Ken Jacobs in September was
> that 8i would only be supported through the end of this calendar
> year.
>
> This is incredibly relevant information, for I will have to guide my
> clients accordingly.
>
> Regards,
> Melanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Drake [mailto:discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tue 10/14/2003 4:59 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Database just stops
>
>
> Ron,
>
> Its highly likely that if you were to open a TAR on this, that the
> analyst would recite the following:
>
> "please apply the currently supported patchset" - which would be
> 8.1.7.4.1.
>
> Unfortunately, there are numerous security fixes that have been made
> available that are not in a full patchset release (one that can be
> applied with OUI) - e.g. patchset 8.1.7.4.12. I'd recommend having
> the security fixes in place, but Oracle is less than wonderful about
> how they word the use of one-off patchsets. So, if you're risk-averse
> in terms of applying patchsets instead of being risk-averse in terms
> of some user running load<something> with a long username/password
> and crashing the instance (security), at least apply the 8.1.7.4.1
> patchset.
>
> There is exploit code in the wild (shipped by oracle) that can crash
> an instance.
> You should be able to find an entry in the listener.log file for
> this.
> It is highly unlikely that this is causing the crash, however.
> (email me backchannel, as I don't want to
>
> IMHO: Oracle should release an 8.1.7.5.x patchset so that the
> security fixes are in a full patchset release. Now that they've
> extended support for a year of 8.1.7, there really isn't an excuse
> not to.
>
> Unless you get lucky, you're going to have to apply a patchset.
> So why not just apply the patchset (properly, after reading the
> release notes, full backups, exports, etc) and see if that takes care
> of the problem?
>
> More often then not, the issue has been encountered by some other
> user, they filed a tar >> bug report >> bug fix >> patch (a lengthy
> process).
>
> hth.
>
> Paul
>
> "Smith, Ron L." <rlsmith_at_kmg.com> wrote:
>
> I have an Oracle 8.1.7.0 database running on an MS2000 server. A
> few times a day the database just stops running for no reason.
> There are no messages in the alert or trace logs. Nothing in the
> Event logs. It just stops.
>
> When I restart the database it goes through crash recovery but
> comes up fine.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Ron Smith
>
>
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