Oracle Client(8.0.5) installation on Linux(6.0)

Question

Please Help,
These are the steps followed in the Oracle
client installation of the Linux
version
1. Loaded SQLNET, TCP/IP Adapter and sqlplus from the Oracle CD for Linux.
2. While running SQLPLUS it gave the 'Missing Library file'
3. Added LD_LIBRARY_PATH parameter to .profile, problem solved.
4. While running SQLPLUS a new message 'Segmentation Fault - Core dumped'
started coming.
After analysing it was observed that none of the Linux memory parametre
required for oracle had been tuned. these parameters are :-
shmmax,shmseg, shmmin, shmmni, semmns, semmni
We know the value of these parameters but the problem is that in linux we
are not able to find the Kernel paramater file,
as we do not know the Kernel parameter file name and the location in which
it is situated.
I have done the configuration of Oracle in Sun Solaris successfully and
also modified the Kernel parameter. the following in the sample data
extracted from the /etc/system file present in Sun Solaris.
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=208388608
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=15
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=150
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=250
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
What I request is that kindly tell me how and where to update the same in
the Linux for installing Oracle Client(8.0.5) on Linux(6.0).Regards And Thanks
Sanjay Kr. Pandey

Answer 1

You'll have to be prepared to wade through and understand the Linux way of recompiling your kernel. The files can be located using the "find" command. There is some great "HOW-TO"s in the Linux RedHat site.
Tip: Be very careful how you answer the "make config" questions because it can mess up the resulting VMLINUZ object. Also, be sure to place secondary entry in your "lilo.conf" to allow you a graceful way of getting back to the old kernel should the new one fail.
Good Luck!