Oracle9i installation - Oracle Net Services problems

From: Alan <nomorezpam3_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 27 Sep 2004 04:09:56 -0700
Message-ID: <84f54f12.0409270309.19c8137b@posting.google.com>

I'm not an Oracle DBA and have no real experience with Oracle as yet - but as a Java developer - I need to install Oracle9i on my Solaris8 machine and then try to get it running.

This is not proving to be an easy task. I've run through most of the installation instructions (although I've no idea on what an "Oracle Real Application Cluster" is and it's importance in a single machine environment and have therefore skipped it for now)

Anyway - I'm trying to start my Oracle Net Services - running "lsnrctl start listener" as root from my Solaris8 machine - and I get the error

root> lsnrctl start listener

LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 27-SEP-2004 12:52:50

Starting /apps/vendor/oracle/Database/9i/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...

TNSLSNR for Solaris: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production NL-00280: error creating log stream
/apps/vendor/oracle/Database/9i/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/network/log/listener.log

NL-00278: cannot open log file

     SNL-00016: snlfohd: error opening file
      Solaris Error: 13: Permission denied

Listener failed to start. See the error message(s) above...

Firstly - shouldn't root have all permissions regardless of anything else. Secondly, this /log directory has "drwxr-xr-x" permission for orac9i (my oracle9i owner user) and oinst9i (my oinstall group for oracle9i) - and the listener.log file has -rw-rw-r-- for the same user/group pair.
And finally - as the orac9i user I can echo "testing" successfully into this listener.log file - without any permission problems.

So what goes on?
Anyone got any thoughts?
Many thanks
Alan Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 06:09:56 CDT