Darren Dunham wrote:
>
> Isn't testing revealing? :-)
>
Urgh: I felt sick...and I still do, a little, but that may be the
left-over nasty chicken salad my wife snuck into my lunch yesterday after it
made her sick Monday. Sorry -- yes, scary stuff, very scary.
>
> I don't think oracle will care about the hostname at all.
> Generally the listener will bind to an IP address. As
> long as that IP address is available, that should be enough.
>
So if I just reconfigure Test with Production's IP address & hostname,
I'm done (assuming that the database files match)? Naaaah, too easy -- but
again you say:
>
> If you're talking oracle, it shouldn't matter about the OS
> stuff other than the IP address.
>
So I'll have to believe you. Looks like I was stressing myself out for
_no_ reason.
Did I miss this somewhere?
>
> You'd want to have good /etc/system parameters for shared
> memory, but those could presumably already be the same on
> test and production since you have identical hardware.
>
Yessir, they are.
Darn, this is _way_ less work than I thought it'd be! Thanks for the
information.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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