Re: Why oracle start as root?

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On 26 Aug 2002 18:16:30 -0700, hsingw_at_yahoo.com (Tony Wang) wrote:
>
> >Hi:
> >
> >I have Oracle 8.1.7.3 installed on Solaris 8 machine.
> >
> >The problem is the all the oracle daemons are own by root instead of oracle.
> >
> >Can someone point out what mistake I made?
> >
> >
> >thanks,
>
> You didn't follow the installation instructions and installed
> everything as root (which you are expressly told not to do in the
> installation instructions)
> Now read the installation instructions: chmod will help u out.
>
> Hth
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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And if you don't follow Sybran's advice and you get the ORA-03113 error do us all a favor and don't post a query here asking why. You'll know why!

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Aug 27 2002 - 12:58:05 CDT