Thanks for everybody who helped me out with this issue.
Yep I did bounce the box.
The probs was I was not giving the forward hash after the end of the dir
path this was not allowing me to create the file so stupid of me
Thank you all for taking your time to help me
>From: Uma Sankara_Sivadanam <UmaSankara_Sivadanam_at_satyam.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: UTL_FILE_DIR
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:10:43 -0800
>
>Hello,
>
>I did the same thing a week back.It worked.If u don't feel bad i would
>like
>to ask you whether you bounced the database after you changed the init
>paramater?
>
>Uma Shankar
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: ARUN K C[SMTP:arun_k_c_at_hotmail.com]
> > Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:56 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: UTL_FILE_DIR
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > Can somebody please let me know what I should do so that users can
>create
> > and use files from the operating systems.
> > I added the utl_file_dir=/path/ but this does not seem to be working.
> > I even ran the utlfile.sql which creates the package and granted the
> > execute permission to the user but still it is not creating the file on
> > the
> > operating system.
> > the dir which is on the operating system has read write permission.
> > Can somebody please let me know where I have gone wrong or what else I
> > should do for this to work
> > Thanks in Advance
> > Arun
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