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Re: ipcs -a unix command fails to show

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:12:48 GMT
Message-ID: <35fa7322.19124940@192.86.155.100>


A copy of this was sent to cdoganay_at_my-dejanews.com (if that email address didn't require changing) On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:29:17 GMT, you wrote:

>Hi, I just noticed that unix command ipcs -a, which is supposed to show all
>semaphores ,queues and shared memory activities showed me NOTHING. Although I
>started oracle and running it, have some performance problems.
>
>Any idea what went wrong?
>

You aren't in the right group when you ran the ipcs -a command. ipcs only shows you what you are allowed to see. Consider:

# ipcs -a

IPC status from <running system> as of Tue Sep 8 14:08:44 1998 Message Queue facility not in system.
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME Shared Memory:
m 1000 0x0e3dfecc --rw-r----- oracle8 dba oracle8 dba 12 44941312 16048 7954 14:08:38 14:08:39 4:54:59 T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME
Semaphores:
s 327680 00000000 --ra-r----- oracle8 dba oracle8 dba 100 14:08:30 4:55:00

# su - nobody

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997 $ ipcs -a
IPC status from <running system> as of Tue Sep 8 14:08:57 1998 Message Queue facility not in system.
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME Shared Memory:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME
Semaphores:
$

Root can see everything but 'nobody' cannot. My Oracle software account could see it (you don't need root, you just need the right privs in the OS).

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Thomas Kyte
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