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...acle, and have come up with a few links that suggest how to get Oracle installed and base configured, which has got me started in the right direction on that. My next challenge is maintaining Oracle database specific configuration on the relevant hosts. This contains various elements, such as /etc/oratab, /etc/oranfstab (as we''re using dNFS), various NFS mounts required for a given database, and a few other bits and pieces... Ideally, it would be a 1-to-1 relationship between a given host and a given DB. However that''s unlikely in our env - We''re more likely to have 1 or...

This is pretty ugly. I''m using puppet to install Oracle, ie an exec{} wrapped around: /u01/oracle_extract/linux.x64_11gR2_database/database/runInstaller -silent -responseFile /etc/oracle_response.rsp The problem is that the damn installer backgrounds itself and returns control to the shell. I tried putting the above command in a script, followed by a wait command, but that

Hi, I need to get the environment variable ORACLE_SID from the OS. I know this can be done with the following: $blah = env("PATH") However, the ORACLE_SID variable is only set under the oracle user account. So I would need a way to login as the oracle account first to retrieve the ORACLE_SID variable. Is there anyway to get the environment variable from a user''s account