Re: symlinks/OUI

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Pass, Stephanie wrote:
> would walk away. Sym links can be a good thing if you are careful. We

define careful. When is good use to refer to ORACLE_HOME with a symlink and when is it not? I'm sure I've used them without trouble in the past, but I can't prove it at this moment.

> use them frequently.
> We tried installing 10r2 OEM and it aborted due to our sym links.

Did it abort cleanly with warnings about the symlink or did it crash? If it gave warnings that's a good thing. 9.2.x here and OUI does not complain when I point to the software with a symlink, it just corrupts under some circumstances, apparently.

> https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=200:27:126792149666654937
> 82::::p27_id,p27_show_header,p27_show_help:617811.992,1,1

I don't consider this documentation. I guess the install doc implies that real mount points should be used since it says to create the mount points:

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/pre.htm#i1076681 The Oracle9i installation requires at least two mount points:

• one for the software
• one or more for the database files

I think they should give an explicit warning here if OUI can get so ugly. I got lazy and learned the hard way. Thought I'd share the wealth. Here Be Dragons.

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