Re: Oracle DBD and 9i on Redhat

[bob@evilkat.com]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:42:29PM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > hehe do you happen to have a tar file with those so i can just bypass most
> > of the migrain of getting oracle setup.
> 
> Hehe. Did you read the DBD::Oracle README files? *ahem*

about a dozen times now, it really shouldn't be this hard.  I'm begining to think
i'm cursed.

> > 1 IDE disk, 40 gig, on an athlon 2800+ single proc
> 
> OK. Then anyone capable of installing Oracle Lite should be able to get that job
> done. In fact, you've probably already got the Oracle part running.

nope Oracle errors out in a dozen different places all of the help i can find refer
to patches which I can't get to due to a chunk of reasons i'm not allowed to disclose
on a public list.  

> > because Oracle hard codes the names and paths of the executables it needs.  
> 
> I hope you're using symbolic links extensively to solve this instead of renaming
> stuff.

i've given up being creative and just started trying the docs verbatim (which they all
call for renaming the actual files :-/ ), after week two of beating my head against
a wall I'm now just asking for Professional help (and for those that know me, not that
kind of help ;P ).  I need a real Oracle consultant that knows Red Hat/Fedora (not
RHEL) and knows Perl DBI. 

> It's probably looking for stuff in either the LFS base locations (which RH is
> notorious for "going it alone" on) or in what would be SVR4 locations if Linux
> were a SVR4 system, which it's not. As for the RH remark, ... Quick, where is
> your Apache httpd.conf file?
> 

Suposedly it works great on RHEL 2.1 and only requires a handful of patches to work
on RHEL 3 but is completely unsuported on RH9 or FC1 to the point of some real hoop
jumping going on to make it work.  /etc/httpd/conf/ <-- where else would it be?

> me: Symbolic links are your friends.

so are you saying solaris had it right with the fifteen billion directories of symlinks
and symlinks of symlinks? ;-)

Bob T. Kat

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