Permissions on dump logs

From: Louis Avrami <avramil_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 07:08:19 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0035E9C5.20010802155027@fatcity.com>

Hello all,

In an Oracle 8.1.7 instance that I have inherited on a Soalris 2.7 server, the owner of the logfiles under $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/adump, bdump, cdump and udump is the UNIX ID oracle, group oinstall.  The permissions on these files are 640; in other words, only the oracle ID and any ID in the oinstall group can read these log files.

We have a backup process that runs under another ID, with a group of dba.

The backup process cannot see these log files in order to back them up.

Two questions, first one:
If the group dba had been chosen as the SYSDBA and/or SYSOP as part of the installation process, would the dba group have read permissions on these files?

Question two:
Can something be set to make these files readable by other users?  I don't think "_trace_files_public = true" will do it.

Thanks,
Lou Avrami

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Author: Louis Avrami
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