Summary : Svrmgrl "connect internal" asks for password??

Finally managed to fix my problem. Thanks to Charlie Mengler, Christian Trassens, Djordje, Riyaj Shamsudeen, Ross Mohan, Terry Ball and Trivedi Hitarth who gave me many points to check (SQL*net config, $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit space and protection, TWO Task etc etc).

It turns out that the problem was caused because I had somehow incorrectly specified the unix group at installation... of course in my post I specifically stated that this could not be the cause because I know how to install oracle!... never assume anything...

As can be seen from the config.s file, something got messed up during install on 8.1.6...

$ diff /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/lib/config.s /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/lib/config.s 23c23
< /* 0x0008 15 */ .ascii "%s_dbaGroup%\0"

---


> /* 0x0008       15 */         .ascii  "dba\0"

28c28
< /* 0x0014       22 */         .ascii  "%s_operGroup%\0"
---


> /* 0x0014       22 */         .ascii  "dba\0"



I changed it to the same as 8.1.7 and relinked...


dba816 $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
dba816 $ make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle

 - Linking Oracle 
rm -f /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/lib/oracle
ld -o /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/lib/oracle
-L/Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/lib/ -L/Volumes/app/oracle/produ 
mv -f /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/bin/oracle
/Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/bin/oracleO
mv /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/lib/oracle
/Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/bin/oracle
chmod 6751 /Volumes/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/bin/oracle


All seems to be working perfectly now.  Two really good metalink docs on the
subject...


http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab
ase_id=NOT&p_id=69642.1
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab
ase_id=NOT&p_id=1012572.6


Thanks again for all the help.


Ken
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