Re: Permissions err when trying to launch oracle from user other than oracle..

Dug Birdzell wrote:
>
> Hello..I'm posting to this newsgroup in the hopes that someone has seen
> this sort of problem before.
>
> On our sys, (sparc 20/sol 2.5) user oracle can get into sqlplus fine;
> however, other users get denied access, apparently because of
> permissions..
>
> here's the output:
> iron:/export/home2/www/pub/sunspot/raw/dug 141% sqlplus spot/spot
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 3.2.2.0.0 - Production on Mon Jul 15 14:16:44 1996
>
> Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1994. All rights reserved.
>
> ERROR: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-07320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga.
> SVR4 Error: 13: Permission denied
>
> Any advice would be appreciated very much..thanks!
>
> Yours,
>
> Dug Birdzell 1-202-237-1478
> Programmer, Systems Engineer, 3221 Connecticut, NW #502
> Systems Administrator Washington, DC
> http://www.butterfly.net/dug 20008

Check the permissions of $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle. You should see -rwsr-s--x.
If not, then chmod 6751 $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle. Received on Tue Jul 16 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST