RE: UTL_FILE and default file permissions.....

Thanks Maxim!

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Maxim Demenko [mailto:mdemenko_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:27 PM
To: Bobak, Mark
Cc: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Re: UTL_FILE and default file permissions.....

Seems, the Note 283379.1 has a workaround.

Best regards

Maxim

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Bobak, Mark schrieb:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On my 10.2.0.3 RAC system, I'm running into a problem with default
> file permissions for files created via UTL_FILE.
>
> The problem is that the user's server process inherits the default
> umask of the listener that spawns the server process. The listener (I
> assume) inherits the umask from the clusterware that starts the
> listener on node startup. Finally, the clusterware starts from
> /etc/init.d and inherits the default umask from (I assume) the init
> daemon. If I, as the Oracle user, logged in to a particular node,
> bounce the listener explicitly, the problem goes away, cause I have
> default umask of 022, which is what I want. (Files that default to
> rw-r-r--). But, listeners that are started by clusterware, either at
> boot, or explicitly via srvctl, inherit a different umask value.
>
> The question is, where can I set that umask value?
>
> Help? I can't be the first one to have run into this.?
>
> -Mark
>

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