Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sigh.. dealing with Oracle again

I'm currently attempting to install Oracle's crappy Access Manager which uses InstallShield, which is also crappy (well on Linux anyways). So it keeps asking me this:


The product that you are about to install needs to be owned by a dedicated
user. Only root or the dedicated user may be able to start the service. Most
of the time the server is run as `root' or `nobody'.

Enter the username the Access server is running as [nobody]
Enter the Group for the above username [nobody]


To which I give a valid user and group, and it gives me:


Sorry, invalid user `nobody' or invalid group `nobody'.
Please check and enter again.


I've tried a plenty of combinations or valid users and groups, even the sid and gid and nothing works.

To make things worse, most of the Oracle site seems down today. All of the books I need and some downloads all return 404. It amazes me that Oracle can stay in business while eating their own dog food. I figured they would need to run software by a competent vendor.

At least this is getting me nice and riled up for the terrible Oracle love-fest that I'm going to next week.