Re: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges -- from user oracle running

Sorry to be pedantic, but that isn't the sticky bit, that is the SUID bit. There's also an SGID bit.

The sticky bit is set with a 't', and is redundant on modern versions of unix ( including linux ) and may well be ignored altogether.

Oh, and I'm not sorry about being pedantic, not really. :)

Jared

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:39, Dave Hau wrote:
> Make sure you have the sticky bit set for the oracle executable:
>
> chmod u+s $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> gmei_at_incyte.com wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have an Oracle 8173 db running on Solaris 2.8 box (called rex) and
> > today I found something that I am trying to understand. When I login to
> > the Unix box as user "oracle" (which I used to install oracle software), I
> > can manaully run svrmgrl, then connect as "internal", I can do "startup"
> > and "shutdown immediate" with no problem. I have been doing this for
> > years.
> >
> > But if I still log in as "oracle", at unix prompt I do:
> >
> > rex$ which dbstart
> > /oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/dbstart
> > rex$ dbstart
> >
> > SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Wed Sep 3 20:57:16 2003
> >
> > (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >
> > connect internalORA-01031: insufficient privileges
> > connect internal
> > Database "YPD" warm started.
> > rex$ ps -ef|grep oracle
> > oracle 2268 1 0 16:54:27 ? 0:00
> > /oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit
> > oracle 11195 11152 0 20:57:26 pts/2 0:00 grep oracle
> > oracle 11152 11150 0 20:56:19 pts/2 0:00 -sh
> >
> > I know "dbstart" worked before because it was called by "auto start"
> > script that I put in /etc/init.d/oracle and /etc/rc2.d/S99oracle last
> > year.
> >
> > I also checked /var/opt/oracle/oratab and environmental variables:
> >
> > rex$ env|grep ORACLE
> > ORACLE_ADMIN=/oracle/admin
> > ORACLE_BASE=/oracle
> > ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/8.1.7
> > ORACLE_SID=YPD
> >
> > And they seem working fine (again I can use svrmgrl without any problems).
> >
> > Does anyone know where I should fix so I can start the instance by running
> > script "dbstart"? TIA.
> >
> > Guang
> >
> >
>
>
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