[Spacewalk-list] Mr. 500 here... more info

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:57:32AM -0600, mark wrote:
> >
> > Are you setting this for the root user? If yes, you are not following the
> > installation instructions.
>
> When I install Oracle, I usually set up the environment for all users.

Those other users are supposed to use the InstantClient's client tools
which do not require ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set. They (might)
require /etc/tnsnames.ora but not the environment variables.

If you set the environment variables, you will force the other client
libraries (cx_Oracle, perl-DBD-Oracle) to dynamically load libraries
from the Oracle XE distribution, which are *not* the libraries they
were compiled and tested against. Thus, you might experience Oracle
libraries issues in the future. And if I remember correctly, you've
already experienced them in the past. This is the reason we recommend
to follow the installation and setup instructions properly.

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Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #satellite*, #brno
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat