Re: Early Warning: VAX VMS 5.5 - Oracle 7.1.3.2

From: Leng Kaing <leng_at_cougar.vut.edu.au>
Date: 1996/01/29
Message-ID: <4eic68$3o6_at_cougar.vut.edu.au>#1/1


Jonathan Lewis (Jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: Just a brief note for anyone who may have upgraded their
: oracle database to 7.1.3.2 under Vax VMS 5.5
 

: There is a bug in this version which seems to make it
: impossible to add a new datafile to the database. The
: error messages you get are:
: ORA-01119 Can't create file
: followed by:
: ORA-07537 File owner group < MAXSYSGROUP
: followed by an O/S error:
: Cannot file file.
 

: I called Oracle support in the UK on this one yesterday
: and there is a patch, but I didn't get the number.
 

: --
: Jonathan Lewis

I've always thought that this problem was caused by the fact that you don't have permission to write to the directory. Trying changing directory ownership and see if it works.

Leng.

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Leng Kaing
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Received on Mon Jan 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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