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Running Oracle 9i on FreeBSD 5.1
Posted August 11, 2003

Don't even bother trying to run the Oracle installer on FreeBSD.

Instead, NFS-mount the BSD disk from a Linux box and use the Linux system to install Oracle.

Once it is working on the Linux box, tune your FreeBSD kernel according to Oracle's requirements.

Start with a copy of the GENERIC kernel configuration.

bsd5# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
bsd5# cp -i GENERIC /root/BSD5
bsd5# ln -s /root/BSD5

Add the following options.

options SEMMSL=100
options SEMMNS=32000
options SEMOPM=100
options SEMMNI=100
options SHMMAX=2147483647
options SHMMNI=4096
options SHMALL=2097152

Oracle wants SHMMAX=2147483648 but FreeBSD doesn't like that because it doesn't fit in a signed 32-bit word. "Decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned." As it turns out, you have to set SHMMAX at boot time anyway.

bsd5# echo >>/etc/rc.local sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=2147483647

Also before rebooting, enable linux binary emulation.

bsd5# echo >>/etc/rc.conf linux_enable=YES

Install the linux_base package from a CD or a mirror site.

bsd5# pkg_add ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/bsd/freebsd/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/packages/All/linux_base-7.1_2.tgz

Compile and install the new kernel.

bsd5# config BSD5
bsd5# cd ../compile/BSD5
bsd5# make depend
bsd5# make
bsd5# make install
bsd5# reboot

Copy oratab and oraInst.loc to /etc.

bsd5# cd /usr/oracle/etc
bsd5# cp -i oratab oraInst.loc /etc

Change N to Y in the planb line in /etc/oratab, so that dbstart will start the planb instance.

planb:/usr/oracle/planb:Y

Change the oracle user's shell to bash.

bsd5# chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash oracle

Add environment variables to /home/oracle/.profile.

bsd5# su -l oracle
oracle@bsd5$ cd
oracle@bsd5$ cat >>.profile
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/oracle/planb
export ORACLE_BASE=/usr/oracle/base
export ORACLE_SID=planb
PATH="$PATH:/usr/oracle/planb/bin"
EOF
oracle@bsd5$ . .profile

Create initplanb.ora from the template init.ora file.

oracle@bsd5$ cp -i /usr/oracle/planb/dbs/init{,planb}.ora

Start Oracle.

oracle@bsd5$ dbstart

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Aug 9 11:05:11 2003

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

SQL> Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  235999352 bytes
Fixed Size                   450680 bytes
Variable Size             201326592 bytes
Database Buffers           33554432 bytes
Redo Buffers                 667648 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

Database "planb" warm started.

Set up TCP/IP service.

Log in as root again.

Add oraclelistener and oraclelistenerssl ports to /etc/services.

bsd5# cat <<EOF >>/etc/services
oraclelistener    1521/tcp
oraclelistenerssl 2484/tcp
EOF

Copy /usr/oracle/network/admin/listener.ora to /etc and make sure the hostnames are bsd5 (this machine) rather than planb (the machine you ran the installer on).

bsd5# cp -p -i /usr/oracle/network/admin/listener.ora /etc
bsd5# ee /etc/listener.ora

These are the two lines that I changed.

        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = bsd5.cis2.selkirk.bc.ca)(PORT = 1521))
...
      (GLOBAL_DBNAME = bsd5.cis2.selkirk.bc.ca)

Start the TCP/IP listener.

bsd5# su -l oracle -c 'tnslsnr &'

Verify that tnslsnr is listening to port 1521.

bsd5# sockstat|grep oracle
oracle   tnslsnr    6591  9  stream /var/tmp/.oracle/sEXTPROC
oracle   tnslsnr    6591  10 stream /var/tmp/.oracle/s#6591.1
oracle   tnslsnr    6591  11 tcp4   10.10.2.5:1521        *:*
oracle   oracle     6546  12 udp4   127.0.0.1:49371       *:*
oracle   oracle     6546  13 tcp4   *:49161               *:*
oracle   oracle     6544  12 udp4   127.0.0.1:49369       *:*
oracle   oracle     6528  12 udp4   127.0.0.1:49363       *:*

To start Oracle at boot time, create /usr/local/etc/rc.d/oracle.sh like this.

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n ' oracle '
    su -l oracle -c 'dbstart; exec tnslsnr' &
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n ' oracle '
    su -l oracle -c 'killall tnslsnr; exec dbshut' &
    sleep 10
    ;;
  *)
    echo >&2 "usage: $0 start|stop"
    ;;
esac

Make it executable.

bsd5# chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/oracle.sh