Re: HELP: starting oracle 8i as root user

You need to switch user to the oracle owner, then run the db & listener startups. Use something like su - oracle -c "command string" in the startup file.

Alex

Patrick Gibson wrote:

> I've installed Oracle 8i on a Linux system. As the oracle user, I can
> startup the server; however, when I try startup the server as the root user,
> I get a "SVRMGR> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges" error message. Both the
> root user and the oracle user are in the group 'dba'.
>
> I did an experiment where I added the user 'patrick' to the group 'dba'. As
> 'patrick', I was able to startup and shutdown the server without any
> problems.
>
> The reason I need 'root' to be able startup and shutdown the server is
> because I want Oracle started and stopped automatically when (and if) the
> system goes up and down.
>
> Can anyone provide me with some advice/pointers for getting this to work? I
> am find Oracle Corporation's documentation to be very inadequate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
> PS: Please reply via email as well as to this group.
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Received on Wed Mar 03 1999 - 09:25:47 CST