Re: ORA-12546 on Linux 6.0

Mahesh Swaminathan wrote:

> I have installed oracle 8 server (version 8.0.5.0.0) on a Linux Redhat 6.0
> server (i applied the suggested patch to let oracle 8 use glib2.0). I have
> created a database and i am able to startup and mount the database as a
> ORACLE_OWNER. Also, I am able to connect to SQLPLUS when i am logged in as
> ORACLE_OWNER. But when i try to use sqlplus (or for that matter connect to
> database through any other medium) when i am logged in as a different user,
> i get ora-12546: TNS: Permission denied error. I saw some news messages
> suggesting me to do the following:
> > > chown oracle.dba $ORACLE_HOME/bin/tnslsnr
> > > chmod 750 $ORACLE_HOME/bin/tnslsnr
> > > chown oracle.dba $ORACLE_HOME/network/log
> > > chmod 775 $ORACLE_HOME/network/log
> > > chown root.dba $ORACLE_HOME/network/log/listener.log
> > > chmod 664 $ORACLE_HOME/network/log/listener.log
> and i did them but i still do get the same error.
>
> I want to be able to obtain a database connection through php3 module to the
> oracle database and with this permission denied error i am not able to
> proceed.

Try 'chmod +x sqlplus'. Oracle for Linux has tons of bugs. Received on Sat Sep 04 1999 - 13:27:08 CDT