RE: TNS_ADMIN

  • From: Michael Milligan <Michael.Milligan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:27:13 -0600

The environmental variable TNS_ADMIN takes precedence over the setting in
the oracle_home registry area. You can set this in the registry itself as
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TNS_ADMIN set to something like
c:\oracle\ora92\network\admin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:Jacques.Kilchoer@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:17 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: TNS_ADMIN


What I do is (belt and suspenders approach)
a) Set the system environment variable TNS_ADMIN
b) In each %ORACLE_HOME%/netxxx/admin directory, have a
{config_file_name}.ora file that only includes the one line "ifile =
c:\my_directory\{config_file_name}.ora". I've never had a problem doing it
this way.

> -----Original Message-----
> Niall Litchfield
> 
> The separate directory thing does make sense. I have had 
> nothing but grief with system environment variables. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JohnF@xxxxxxxx 
> > 
> > I was just reading a metalink article yesterday that suggests 
> > that you forget
> > trying to set TNS_ADMIN in the registry, and set it as an 
> > environment variable
> > instead.  In my Win2000 system, that means go to control 
> > panel, system, choose
> > the Advanced tab, press the environment variables button.  
> > The article also
> > recommends that you create a directory outside of any of your 
> > Oracle_Homes and
> > put the network configuration files there, with the 
> > appropriate setting of
> > TNS_ADMIN.  That way, if you reinstall, upgrade, delete, or 
> > otherwise hose an
> > Oracle Home, your network settings will be unharmed.
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