RE: Off topic - Unix Question

Oracle running as root?

Cool! You can write an external procedure in C, and do anything you want on the system, as the external process will be running as root. ;)

Jared

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ruiz, Mary A (CAP, CDI) wrote:

> Carlos:
>
> The owner of the directory in /proc is the unix account who started up the
> database.
> Oracle processes are owned by the unix account who owns the oracle
> executable files, in your
> case oracle. It looks like root is in the dba group, which it would need to
> be in order to
> start up the database. Now if that is a good idea, I am not so certain.
>
> Mary Ruiz
> Atlanta GA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alvarez, Carlos [SMTP:CAlvarez_at_uniFON.com.ar]
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:29 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Off topic - Unix Question
> >
> > Hi,
> > Is there any normal situation when the user owner of the /proc/<pid>
> > directory is diferent from the user that I see with ps?.
> >
> > Let me show it:
> >
> >
> > oracle 1398 1 0 19:11:09 ? 0:07 ora_dbwr_xx
> > oracle 1396 1 0 19:11:09 ? 0:00 ora_pmon_xx
> >
> > $ calvarez:/proc
> > > ls -ld 1398
> > dr-x--x--x 5 root dba 736 jun 11 19:11 1398
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Carlos
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Jared Still
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