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orainst on linux fails ...

From: Steve Sullivan <sullivan_at_indra.com>
Date: 29 Sep 1999 12:04:58 -0600
Message-ID: <7stkca$e2a$1@net.indra.com>


Hi -
I'm installing Oracle 8.0.5 Server on RedHat 6.0 Linux. When I run the installer orainst I select all the defaults, and all possible products to install.
But I get the message:

 A permission denied error occurred while trying to make the  directory '/oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/orainst'. (Operation  not permitted.) Would you like to retry the operation, ignore the  error, or allow the error to be processed by the Installer?

Yet "ls -al" shows the directory already exists, and is certainly accessible by userid "oracle":

$ pwd

/oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5

$ ls -al

total 5

   1 drwx------   5 oracle   dba          1024 Sep 24 14:46 ./
   1 drwx------   3 oracle   dba          1024 Sep 24 13:39 ../
   1 drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          1024 Sep 24 14:43 bin/
   1 drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          1024 Sep 24 14:46 dbs/
   1 drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          1024 Sep 24 14:47 orainst/

$ id

uid=600(oracle) gid=600(dba) groups=600(dba)

Similarly, all the directories /oracle01, /oracle01/app, ... are owned by oracle.dba.

How can I get around this?

Many thanks -

Steve Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 13:04:58 CDT

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