Sam,
I'll try to keep the FLAME down to a pilot if I can. Right now I have to
support two third party products that "were designed for Windows", namely
Support Magic from NAI and Equity Edge from Etrade. In case 1 NAI assumes that
they are being installed onto a NT RDBMS therefore they want "total control".
Actually they somehow check to see what version of Oracle's RDBMS is installed
locally which makes working with this piece of trash a real pain, especially
since we don't run Oracle on NT here, only HP-UX. Equity on the other hand only
requires that I verify that the PC being used to install has access to the
database by one means or another and that the tablespaces to be used have been
created on the server as well as the owning Oracle account. Needless to say I
much prefer the latter to the former. Therefore I'd recommend that you do
likewise. Have the person installing the software verify connectivity to the
database, you could even try a short SQL script to double check this rather
readily. Also have the DBA create the required tablespaces, give them a list of
expected tablespaces and minimum sizes. PeopleSoft provides a script that your
suppose to edit during their install process. I would NOT create, nor do I
endorse, a product that requires either SYS or SYSTEM access. To that end, if
your looking for a HelpDesk package, DO NOT look to NAI, PERIOD.
Dick Goulet
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Author: Sam Bootsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2/16/2001 12:02 PM
Hello All:
We are a Windows shop developing a software product that runs on an Oracle
database. Most of our clients also run Oracle on Windows. Recently, a
couple of our new clients have decided to run our database on a UNIX server
instead of NT server. I do not know what flavour of UNIX our clients have.
I know the slashes go in the other direction in UNIX scripts, but can
anybody tell me the UNIX equivalent of COPY, MKDIR, CD, ECHO, and REM?
Here are a few lines of the batch file we use to install our product. Can
anybody help me to convert DOS batch file commands to generic UNIX script
commands?
-------snip-------
@ECHO OFF
ECHO 3 To run this installation please type (at the CD-ROM prompt)
3
IF "==%1" GOTO NODRIVE
CD\
MKDIR %1:\DB543
COPY \SERVER\SCRIPTS\Install.bat %1:\DB543\SERVER\SCRIPTS\Install.bat
>NUL:
:NODRIVE
REM this is a remark
call %1:\DB543\SERVER\Scripts\Install.bat parm1 parm2 parm3
sqlplus system/manager@db
-------snip-------
Thanks for your help.
Sam
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