[Spacewalk-list] Mr. 500 here... more info

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Sun Feb 8 17:53:40 UTC 2009


Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:57:32AM -0600, mark wrote:
>>> Are you setting this for the root user? If yes, you are not following the
>>> installation instructions.
>> When I install Oracle, I usually set up the environment for all users.
> 
> Those other users are supposed to use the InstantClient's client tools
> which do not require ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set. They (might)
> require /etc/tnsnames.ora but not the environment variables.
> 
> If you set the environment variables, you will force the other client
> libraries (cx_Oracle, perl-DBD-Oracle) to dynamically load libraries
> from the Oracle XE distribution, which are *not* the libraries they
> were compiled and tested against. Thus, you might experience Oracle
> libraries issues in the future. And if I remember correctly, you've
> already experienced them in the past. This is the reason we recommend
> to follow the installation and setup instructions properly.
> 
Really?! This XE install, then, isn't like *any* other version of Oracle.
Wonderfull... Thanks, this I had no clue, and I'll won't do it on the
full-scale production system I'm building now, and avoid more problems.

	mark




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