Re: Serious Weirdness: Open VMS and Oracle 7.3.3

> "Koivu, Lisa" wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever seen the Oracle backgroiund processes owned by a
> different os user? We're having probs with one of the db's here (it's
> on Open VMS, so I don't know anything about how to fix it) but I have
> NEVER seen this behavior. Anyone?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lisa Koivu
> Oracle Database Administrator
> 954-935-4117
>

Lisa,

  I have never seen this but it doesn't seem totally outlandish to me. It depends on the kind of background process which doesn't belong to Oracle - if the listener is not started by the Oracle account, Snnnn server processes spawned by it could belong to this account.

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