Re: Clusterware installation / raw partition permissions

On Apr 30, 3:59 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> ryans..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> > mceclnx1:/dev/raw # raw -qa
> > /dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 105, minor 1
> > /dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 105, minor 2
> > /dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 105, minor 3
> > /dev/raw/raw4: bound to major 105, minor 4
>
> > ....
>
> > SuSE's 'orarun' package automatically creates all 255 raw disks... so
> > I'll spare you the listing of all of them... here's the important
> > info:
> > crw-rw---- 1 oracle disk 162, 1 Apr 30 12:51 raw1
> > crw-rw---- 1 oracle disk 162, 2 Apr 30 12:51 raw2
> > crw-rw---- 1 oracle disk 162, 3 Apr 30 12:51 raw3
> > crw-rw---- 1 oracle disk 162, 4 Apr 30 12:51 raw4
>
> > ....
>
> > if I do an "id oracle" -- this is what I get...
>
> > uid=59(oracle) gid=54(oinstall) groups=54(oinstall),6(disk),55(dba)
>
> > I am performing the installation as the user 'oracle' so that should
> > work.
>
> > SuSE defaults the /dev/raw device permissions to root:disk -- which
> > should work because 'oracle' is a member of the 'disk' group.
>
> crw-rw---- = character
>
> you should be looking at something like this:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 11 15:31 sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 11 15:32 sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 11 15:31 sdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 Nov 11 15:32 sdb1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Nov 11 15:31 sdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 Nov 11 15:32 sdc1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Nov 11 15:31 sdd
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 Nov 11 15:32 sdd1
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

and now... I think I've answered my own question after reading that forums thread...

/dev/raw/raw* is just a character link to /dev/cciss/c1d0p* (in my case) -- the /dev/raw/raw* had the correct permissions, but the /dev/ cciss/c1d0p* were all set to 600 ... not 660... strange as no one's documentation (that I've found to this point) mentions this error or suggests at looking at the /dev/[actual partition] permissions over the /dev/raw/raw* permissions. Received on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 18:04:25 CDT