Re: A tricky OAS question

James Dickson wrote:

> Using Solaris 2.5.1
>
> A long time ago I installed Webserver v2 under the Oracle
> home where I had RDBMS version 7.2 and it all worked fine.
>
> I recently migrated the database to 8.0.5 without problems.
> The problems started when I tried to port Webserver v2 to
> the 8.0.5 Oracle home.
>
> My listeners no longer start, giving errors like this:
> > Information: Listening on port 8260 address 0.0.0.0
> > Error: Permission denied when setting Group ID ( ipms ).
> > Error: The server could not initialize
> > Information: The server is exiting
> > Error: Companion oraweb2 process failed
>
> ( ipms ) is the GroupID that the listener has always run under.
> Changing the UserID and GroupID to oradba/dba allows the
> listener to start but that's about it: any requests to the
> listener then result in the error:
>
> > Error: Unable to start child process.
> > Error: Error instantiating the WRB process
>
> I've been stuck on this for 2 days now. What's worse is that
> deinstalling Webserver v2 under Oracle 8.0.5 on the theory
> that the two are incompatible and going back to a backup of
> the files under 7.2 now gives me exactly the same error!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> James
> --
> james_at_valhall.esrin.esa.it

Hi,

Oracle has officially stopped supporting owas installations that are in the same oracle home as the rdbms.
From version 7.3 of the rdbms and owas 3.0, it is mandatory to install the two products in different homes. This way you can also upgrade one without harming the other.
My recommendation is to also install the owas under a different unix user than the rdbms.

Amir Kibar,
Oracle DBA,
IAF Received on Sat Mar 27 1999 - 09:22:46 CST