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Re: slightly OT, permissions unix/oracle puzzler

From: Suzy Vordos <lvordos_at_qwest.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:17:54 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00491A5F.20020708131754@fatcity.com>

If you see perm diffs on the files written to NetApp, that could be the result of mount_nfs permissions.

Kathy Duret wrote:
>
> Ok then why would my oem on one solaris system write files as 664 and another write files as 644?
>
> both databases have '_trace_files_public = TRUE' parameter.
>
> both are writing out files using utl_file. The only difference is one sits on a Netapp filer.
>
> I am still confused.
>
> Kathy
>
> p.s. I know your carpenter. He does good work.
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> Kathy,
>
> > Ok, I log in as oracle, touch a file I get 664 permission on it.
> >
> > But when I create a file through OEM or a plsql procedure I
> > get 644 permissions.
> >
> > My umask is 02.
>
> The umask value is overwritten by the program's mode of writing the file. In
> other words, umask is the default mode when an override is not specified.
> For example, the trace files created by the Kernel do not have world read
> permissions regardless of umask - they are set to world-read using the
> '_trace_files_public = TRUE' parameter which instructs the kernel to create
> these files in a world-readable mode.
>
> Hth!
> John Kanagaraj
> Oracle Applications DBA
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