peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (02/14/91)
From my experience getting Oracle up and keeping it up, I wouldn't trust my personal phone directory to the thing... let alone a password file. It's reliable enough as a database system, I guess, but it's terribly easy to break. And installation and system administration is a nightmare of frustration, with incomplete documentation, broken Makefiles, and the like. It's easier to install the average UUNET source distribution. Speaking of Oracle for System V/386: (1) It requires the Software Development System. This is not documented. (2) It requires you manually CPIO the floppies into the machine, but the CPIO command they give is broken. (3) The Makefile for SQL*NET is broken: you have to manually edit out the references to the asy library before you can link in the Interlan TCP library. (4) It requires a particular ethernet card: they couldn't put the socket calls in a glue file that can be compiled for your own TCP... they're distributed throughout the code, so... (5) You have to remove the Intel-supplied network drivers. This is not documented. (6) You have to add /etc/init.d files, but they're not provided in a form that you can drop them in. (7) I'm sure there's more, but this is all I can recall off the top of my head... I pity anyone who installs this program without being an experienced UNIX head. And depending on it to get the system up? Give me a break! I'd rather replace "passwd" with a csh script! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"