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CREATING TWO OR MORE ORACLE UNIX IDs IN ONE MACHINE [message #58591] Fri, 19 September 2003 12:33 Go to next message
randy
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Hi Gurus,

The Oracle DB for Unix creates a single oracle unix id which can manage multiple databases and versions in a single machine. Is there a way where we can create say two DBs using 8i and 9i and be able to have two oracle unix IDs. The oracle unix IDs should be exclusive to its own DB. Can this be done?
Re: CREATING TWO OR MORE ORACLE UNIX IDs IN ONE MACHINE [message #58592 is a reply to message #58591] Fri, 19 September 2003 15:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mahesh Rajendran
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can be,though not recomended in a long run.
Re: CREATING TWO OR MORE ORACLE UNIX IDs IN ONE MACHINE [message #58593 is a reply to message #58591] Fri, 19 September 2003 15:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kartik Nair
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Create 2 different accounts for 8i and 9i respectively.

eg: oracle8:oinstall for Oracle 8i &
oracle9:oinstall for Oracle9i

The ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_SID, TNS_ADMIN values in the .profile should be set accordingly for each of the user.

Hope this helps.
Re: CREATING TWO OR MORE ORACLE UNIX IDs IN ONE MACHINE [message #58594 is a reply to message #58591] Sat, 20 September 2003 09:30 Go to previous message
Thiru
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Yes,but why ?

Randy,dont you think its much easier if you can have a single login that can manage multiple databases/versions ? The administration is much easier with a single Unix id.

Make use of oraenv and /var/opt/oracle/oratab to switch your environment depending on your version.

Thiru
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