[WBEL-users] Whitebox + Oracle 10g works

[Bill Davidsen]

Michael Squires wrote:
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>>Subject: [WBEL-users] Whitebox + Oracle 10g works
>>
>>Following the instructions from Werner Puschitz' web page
>>
>>http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml
> 
> 
> A couple of notes, from someone with some experience with UN*X but very
> little with Oracle administration:
> 
> 1.  The Oracle notes ("Quick Install") were a little vague in some
> areas; some of these are probably obvious to experienced Oracle users
> but weren't to me.
> 
> The system you're installing onto has to have a fully qualified domain
> name in /etc/hosts and I think "nslookup <your FQDN>" has to resolve to
> the IP of that system.
> 
> The SYS, etc., passwords can't begin with a number.
> 
> Puschitz's instructions for setting shell limits are slightly different
> from Oracle's and are probably better.  The limits are only reset for
> user "oracle" and are set below the max so the system can continue to
> function when the user hits a hard limit.
> 
> WB LINUX doesn't explicitly show the "SEM*" kernel settings using sysctl
> but Puschitz's notes show how to set them, and the installer finds them.
> 
> My WB install was missing required the Berkeley db RPM off the WH
> install CD (don't remember the exact name, but the RPM on the WH CD has
> the same name that the Oracle Quick Install docs ask for).  All other
> required RPMs were correct.
> 
> 2.  The Web-based interfaces worked after re-installation, but after a
> reboot they weren't working.  Starting/stopping the DBMS worked after
> rebooting.  I'm assuming that either some configuration issue (I have
> httpd turned off) or some resource constraint stopped the Web
> interfaces.  There's nothing in /var/log/messages but I haven't looked
> in the Oracle logs.
> 
> After init.cssd started after installation the system was maxed out on
> physical memory (has only 512MB).  During installation about 1/2 of
> physical memory was in use; after reboot the system again had about 1/2
> of physical memory left.  I'm assuming part of the unused memory was
> used by the non-running Web interface daemons, but that's a guess.
> 
> Mike Squires, who remembers sharing the Tandy XENIX/68K newsgroup with
> Bill Davidsen (sir-alan.UUCP is now siralan.org)

Still crazy after all those years ;-) Good to see that the kids haven't 
taken over everything (yet)!


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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979