The oracle client is a fussy thing.

You have to have the environemnt configured correctly. But, if you are running SUID root the environment is not available to you. Catch 22!

My complany has packaged all of this mess away with RPM wrappers around the oracle instant clients that I cannot believe are not part of normal distributions.

For shell folks 

echo -e "#Name: %{name}\n#Summary: %{summary}\n#Version: %{version}\ne
+xport ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/%{version}/%{client_folder}\nexport
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/oracle/%{version}/%{clien
+t_folder}/lib" >> "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"%{_sysconfdir}/profile.d/oracle-en
+vironment.sh

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For http scripts 

echo -e "#Name: %{name}\n#Summary: %{summary}\n#Version: %{version}\nS
+etEnv ORACLE_HOME /usr/lib/oracle/%{version}/client64\nSetEnv LD_LIBR
+ARY_PATH /usr/lib/oracle/%{version}/client64/lib" >> "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+"%{_sysconfdir}/httpd/conf.d/oracle-environment.conf

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For suid scripts 

cp tnsnames.ora "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"%{_sysconfdir}

echo -e "/usr/lib/oracle/%{version}/%{client_folder}/lib" > "$RPM_BUIL
+D_ROOT"%{_sysconfdir}/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient11.2-ldconfig.
+conf

ldconfig

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Mike

mrdvt92

In reply to Re^2: Strange behaviour with DBD::Oracle by mrdvt92
in thread Strange behaviour with DBD::Oracle by Fairchild

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