Re: software files and datafiles - do they have to be near the root of the mount point?

mpho wrote:

> I'll be installing Oracle 8.1.7EE on Solaris 2.8 SPARC. It's a dev
> box for only a few users, so I don't have performance concerns, and it
> already has other stuff running on it. Only one mount point has
> enough space, so I'll be putting both the software files and data
> files on it.
>
> Something like
> /aaa/bbb/app/oracle/.....
> and
> /aaa/bbb/oradata
>
> Account oracle:dba will own /app (and all below it) and /oradata (and
> all below it) (account oracle's primary group is oinstall and
> secondary group is dba). All documentation says that if /aaa and /bbb
> are owned by root this should not be a problem.
>
> However, a newsgroup posting I ran into said it had errors and they
> were forced to change /uo1's owner from root to oracle (oracle was
> installed on this mount point: /uo1/oracle).
>
> Anybody experienced success with what I'm trying? Failure?
>
> Thanks very much.

Oracle must own the directory structure containing the Oracle software, all control files, log files, and tablespaces.

Just go to your current mount point. Create a directory for the Oracle software and another for the tablespaces and make Oracle the owner. PS: you need to create two groups ... DBA and OINSTALL. Make sure you follow all of the directions including changes to /etc/system.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Mon Jun 04 2001 - 00:30:37 CDT