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C-ICAP and ClamAV for ORDS

Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS) has feature to scan uploaded files for viruses. You can install e.g. C-ICAP and ClamAV for that purpose. Here are steps how to do that on Ubuntu 18.04 server assuming you have already working ORDS installation on same or different server.

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Stopping XE 18c properly when shutting down CentOs 7

You can configure automatically start and stop Oracle XE 18c database on operating system startup and shutdown. See details from installation guide. I did install XE 18c on CentOs 7 and executed steps mentioned in installation guide. When viewing database alert.log after system reboot, noticed that database wasn't actually stopped properly. Processes were just killed. I didn't investigate more why that happens on my system. For workaround I did revert steps mentioned in installation guide and created service file for systemd.

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