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- From: vgokhale@us.oracle.com (Vipin Gokhale)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Stripping Oracle Executables on UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.051145.11300@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 05:11:45 GMT
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- In article <syscrc.720831313@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu
- (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- >From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
- >Subject: Stripping Oracle Executables on UNIX
- >
- >We just installed Oracle 6.0.32 on our Silicon Graphics 4d/280gtx
- >running
- >IRIX 4.0 (UNIX). The installation is taking up a whopping 175 MB of
- >disk.
- >We noticed that many of the Oracle executables are not stripped which
- >is
- >(probably) a waste of disk space.
- >
- >Is it safe to strip them or will Oracle break?
- >
- >--
- >=======================================================================
- >=====
- >Randy Carpenter rcarpent@gsu.edu % Got a
- >light?
- >Georgia State University (404) 651-2648 No match.
- >Wells Computer Center %
- >
-
- It is safe to strip executables. Often times should the program run into
- un-recoverable error, we generate trace files, for which need symbol table
- information. I'd suggest *not* stripping atleast "oracle" executable.
-