Re: Ownership on Oracle CRS Home binary files

All the CRS installations that I've come across have the owner as non-root for CRS binaries and haven't had any issues pertaining to that setup.

The only thing that comes to the mind is when you have different owners for CRS and database binaries. ONS would be running as part of nodeapps and will out of crs owner. This would have issues if the both (crs and database binary owners) are not part of the same group. There needs to be a parameter set in ons.config file ( I think its allowgroup=true) to get ons working in such a case.

Thanks,
-Sudhi.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Anurag Verma <anuragdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> Anurag Verma,
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> ERCOT(Electric Reliability Council of Texas),
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