Apr 19, 2009

Configuring Linux for Oracle Database 10g

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This is to show how to configure Linux kernel and prepare for the installation of Oracle Database 10g.

Setup the user and groups:
/usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
/usr/sbin/groupadd dba
/usr/sbin/groupadd oper
/usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
/usr/bin/passwd oracle
Setup the envrionement:
umask 022

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
      
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_1
ORACLE_SID=orcl
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app
chmod -R 775 /u01/app
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID
Setup the kernel parameters:
/sbin/sysctl -w kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
/sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmall = 2097152
/sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
/sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmmni = 4096
/sbin/sysctl -w fs.file-max = 65536
/sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
/sbin/sysctl -p

>>>> From http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe10gdb/install/linuxpreinst/linuxpreinst.htm