[luau] Oracle on LINUX

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:20:41PM -0600, Karen McKee wrote:
> I work for Central Missouri State University, in Missouri. We
> currently have Oracle 9i installed and running on LINUX (SUSe)
> on a 390 mainframe. It wasn't too hard, considering Oracle
> finally sells a license for it.

Ooh!

> However, we are configuring a RedHat server here that we need
> to set up as a client to the Oracle database. So, we're trying
> to go from LINUX to LINUX. So far, I've searched for about a
> week on the web for an Oracle Client for LINUX, to no avail.

I think you need to edit tnsnames.ora under .../network/admin on
the client machine. You can run a tnsping against the service
name that you added to make sure your client can talk to the
listener on the server.

> Have you any advice or links?

Here are two Linux-centric guides (via Google):
http://www.dbspecialists.com/presentations/oracle817linux.html
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Oracle-7-HOWTO-4.html

-Vince