Re: Password file not getting updated

From: Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:52:58 +1100
Message-ID: <CAFeFPA-3BBmu5WAu6=t1b0fCnL4njP9zcce4COMnToK8qaqBPQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



Maybe a stupid question, but is the oracle database running under user oracle?

Jack van Zanen



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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Ram Raman <veeeraman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all who replied.
> Mark:
>
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ . oraenv
> ORACLE_SID = [oracle] ? ses
> ORACLE_HOME = [/home/oracle] ? /u01/Oracle/ses1
> [oracle_at_server ~]$
> [oracle_at_server ~]$
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ echo $TWO_TASK <-- no value set
>
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ id
> uid=500(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=500(dba),501(oinstall)
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ which sqlplus
> /u01/Oracle/ses1/bin/sqlplus
> [oracle_at_server ~]$
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ sqlplus /nolog
> SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.5.0 - Production on Mon Oct 10 14:09:55 2011
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
> SQL> connect / as sysdba
> ERROR:
> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
>
> SQL> exit
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ echo $ORACLE_HOME
> /u01/Oracle/ses1
> [oracle_at_server ~]$
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ ls -ltr $ORACLE_HOME
> total 252
> -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 60 Oct 7 2010 oraInst.loc
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 37 Oct 7 2010 install.platform
> drwxr-x--- 7 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 7 2010 jdk
> drwxr-x--- 6 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 7 2010 oui
> drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 7 2010 jdbc
> drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 7 2010 diagnostics
> ...
> drwxr-x--- 14 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 3 17:40 search
> drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 5 15:26 bin
> drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 10 14:00 dbs
>
> [oracle_at_server ~]$ ls -ltr $ORACLE_HOME/bin | more
> total 234160
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 1748 Feb 16 2003 pupbld
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 2134 Feb 16 2003 helpins
> -rwxr-x--- 1 oracle oinstall 48 Oct 7 2003 oraxsl
> -rwxr-x--- 1 oracle oinstall 48 Oct 7 2003 oraxml
> ....
> -rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 119158 Aug 10 17:19 nohup.out
> -rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Aug 10 18:18 mtstatus.log
> -rw------- 1 root root 862 Oct 5 15:17 sqlnet.log
>
> One thing that needs to be mentioned is that the database was installed by
> the application as part of the application install. It is oracle product
> SES, a product used in web center applications. DBAs did not install it. .
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Powell, Mark <mark.powell2_at_hp.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Also make sure the TWO_TASK environment variable is unset.
> >
> > Can you log in as sysdba from the database server?
> > set an export ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID then
> > sqlplus /nolog
> > connect / as sysdba
> >
> >
> >
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