Hi , Is there any body who can help me regarding these two questions...?

Quest. No 1
I want to display the current day and date when a user login to linux, with a welcome message. How to enter the command in the motd file?

Quest No. 2

While trying to install oracle 8i for linux, I downloaded jre11_6 v5. And I created a user orausr and installed the jre @ /home/orausr/.
It has ben asked to give a symbolic link to /usr/local... how? And also when I gave the ./runInstaller command it gives an error the cannot found /usr/local/jre/bin/jre to startup the Java Virtual Machine. Is any other S/w is required, what is the exact path to be given and wheer it should be installed...
I hope to get an early reply..

Thank You
Sathish

I wouldn't use motd specifically, as you'd want that to be updated on a cron job or such as it's only a text file. I'd add a line such as

echo Today is `date +"%A, %d %B %Y"`

to /etc/bashrc

and to make a symlink

ln -s originalfile newfilename

Sathu,

When you say symbolic linking, are you also refering to 'Soft Linking"? I'm new to either term, but if they mean the same thing, then I think I have your solution. I dealt with this when studying Oracle and its Unix administration aspects.

Sometimes you install files in a prefered directory, rather than the directory that the applications looks at (by default).

For example, lets say you put the my_file.conf in /mydirectory (because you prefer that file to be in that directory). However, the application that will call on that file expects it to be in /app_directory. Well then you'll have to create a "Softlink" from the default ( /app_directory ). From my understanding, a softlink is a file that simply points to where the "real" file actually resides.

To softlink the file my_file.conf, go to the directory where you need to put the softlink ( /app_directory ) and issue this command:
ln -s <the path where the "real" file actually resides>

Once you do that, do an ls of that directory, and you will actually see a listing of the file as if it were actually in that directory.

ANYONE, FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME ON THIS.

I've been using UNIX for a long time, soooooo what
you want to do here is change directory into the
directory /usr/local


# cd /usr/local

# ln -s /oraclePath/oracleDir



-Rick

According to the info I have Oracle 8i has the path to the jre hardcoded (!) into the installer and looks for it in the dir you mentioned. Typically this is /usr/local/jre116_v5 or similar, and loged in as root do ln -s /usr/local/jre116_v5 /usr/local/jre.

best of luck.