Ray,

Since Oracle v7 if you stated to Oracle that you had a sym link they
would walk away. Sym links can be a good thing if you are careful. We
use them frequently.
We tried installing 10r2 OEM and it aborted due to our sym links.


Re : Symbolic (Soft) Link Usage for oracle home ( ORACLE_HOME ) Value
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=200:27:126792149666654937
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From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected)
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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:42 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: symlinks/OUI

I discovered I had a corrupted oraInventory. I was not able to install
or delete software.  Somewhere in the discussion with ora support the
analyst said, "OUI doesn't handle symlinks well," suggesting that my
use of a symlink to oracle_home may have caused the corruption.

I did find things like this in oraInventory/logs/oraInstallxxx.err:

Ignoring Exception during
de-installoracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilDeinstallException:
Unable to delete file /opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib/stubs/libc.so

and sure enough, this directory structure here is a symlink."

Is this documented?
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