[chef] Re: Bash problem? with oracle 11gr2 install

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Braden 
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 wrote:
> ***The Problem***
> When I fire off oracles install script it returns successful midway but
> continues to run after that (and you have to press enter at the very end) so
> when the first part returns zero chef thinks its all good and reports that 
> its
> done, but really chef needs to wait another 15+ mins while oracle finishes
> installing.

Yup. Unfortunately this sort of "automated installation" is more of an
"answer script" than anything else.

Five years ago I created a build system for putting Oracle in a debian
package for internal use.

http://blog.loftninjas.org/2007/10/12/putting-oracle-database-in-a-deb-package-for-ubuntu/

The Oracle installer forks from the shell script, so the script exits
before the installer is finished. Maaaaybe you could prevent this, but
I suspect you're going to want to create some kind of a wrapper script
that runs the installer script and then watches for something, like
something indicating success in the installers log file, or the
installer process existing, or a service starting up.

Bryan