RE: dba job security - even better if you're also the sysadmin

Paul,

        A raw devices daemon is not likely to be a part of the Oracle software.=20

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh_at_gmail.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:04 PM To: Goulet, Dick
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: dba job security - even better if you're also the sysadmin

Dick,

Raw devices are in the domain of root, and its not likely to be moved into (unvprivileged) user-space anytime soon.

Paul

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:39:29 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:
> Paul,

> Thanks for the information. What would be the great
> frustration, to me & I'm not currently using 10G, is that Oracle has
> these "root" daemons that they spawn in this way. If it's an Oracle
> needed process it should be controlled from the dbstart script, not an
> inittab entry.

> Dick Goulet

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