Re: April Security Patches on Windows 2003

we have applied patch 5064365 (Release 9.2.0.7 Patch 9 ) succesfully before. Some things to pay attention to:
- bring down all services/programs that can potentially use Oracle client libs before you start, including your own sqlplus sessions to bring down the databases!

- opatch version must be at least 1.0.0.0.55
- set active_state_perl=TRUE and set PERL5LIB to your perllib
- set oracle_home properly

It helps if you can give a brief description of the type of errors you see.

Btw, I noticed today that there's yet another patch on Metalink labeled 5212087 (540K/11-May-2006) According to the description it contains a fix for DBMS_STATS, I didn't check if 5212087 is a vehicle for fixes of security issues still open after CPUApr2006.

Regards,
Andre

> Is anybody else having trouble with these patches? We've tried them
> twice on two different servers and the each install fails with different
> errors. We've opened up a ticket but aren't making much progress. It
> feels like Oracle is kind of winging it. By the time we get this
> solved, if we do, it will be time for the June patches.
>
> Don Freeman
> Database Administrator 1
> Bureau of Information Technology
> Pennsylvania Department of Health
> (717) 703-5782
>
>

--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l