From owner-freebsd-database Wed Nov 6 0:10:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684C537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp03.web.de [217.72.192.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978E043E8A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from g.w.k@web.de) Received: from [213.148.149.130] (helo=hunter.muc.macsch.com) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.91 #2) id 189LGG-0003eA-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:10:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Oracle 9i anyone? From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" To: Donny Lee Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3DC87E06.2040106@CoreBit.com> References: <1036538488.369.23.camel@bat.localnet> <3DC87E06.2040106@CoreBit.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Nov 2002 09:10:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1036570251.69552.19.camel@hunter.muc.macsch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am Mi, 2002-11-06 um 03.27 schrieb Donny Lee: > [...] > I'm starting trying, with 5.0-Current, and not much luck. > > How come this list is so quite? :) > > -- > // Donny I can only figure that people (except for a very few) went away from FreeBSD as an Oracle platform, because with Oracle8i it used to be that you could not *install* Oracle on FreeBSD. The installer in 8i would only run with the included Linux JDK 1.1.8 which used native threads, and you may know that native (Linux) threads are very shaky in FreeBSD -- most times you get core dumps. With 8i you had to install Oracle on a Linux platform and then copy the directory hierarchy over to FreeBSD. Then it would work. It actually worked very reliably that way, I have been using it for about two years now, in software development. The problem is that 8i doesn't like newer Linux environments like linux_base-7.1. For native Linux there are patches by oracle which make it run, but for me the patches didn't work in FreeBSD (creating a database aborted because it couldn't figure out the tty of the current process). So now that I upgraded to 4.7R where linux_base-7.1 is the default I am inclined to also upgrade to Oracle9i and see how far I get here. -- Regards, Georg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message