On one of my Exadata Cloud at Customer system, I recently had an issue which required to check exactly which files were updated when upgrading the cloud-specific tooling included on Exadata Cloud at Customer, also know as dbaastools_exa. I needed to know if a configuration file had been overwritten or not, when upgrading dbaastools_exa. My knowledge in RPM packages being very limited, I did some research and here is what I found :
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I just started working on Exadata Cloud at Customer. And with this, come my first mistakes 😉
One of my compute node had all cloud tooling scripts located in the adequate directories :
# ls -l /var/opt/oracle/exapatch/ [...] -r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 0 Feb 4 21:23 exadbcpatchsm -r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 0 Feb 4 21:23 exadbcpatchmulti -r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 0 Feb 4 21:23 exadbcpatch [..]
but for an obscure reason (made of failed update combined with full filesystem), they were all emtpy.
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