RE: How to successfully execute "dmesg" command from Oracle accou

Suzy,

Thanks for your reply. I needed it because Oracle has supplied a script: InstallPrep.sh on Metalink which check the server to ensure that it has adequate resources to successfully install Oracle9i database software. It should be run as "oracle" user only, but it executes "dmesg" command. It is unable to execute "dmesg" and so Iam not getting proper output. Someone has replied and advised me to have the SUID bit set on dmesg. I would try that and see if it works. The script can't be run as "root" either.

• Babu

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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:39 PM
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To read kernel memory requires root privs, so don't think there is a way to do that from the oracle account without some undesirable hack.

Janardhana Babu Donga wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> When I run "dmesg" command from oracle account on HP-UX 11.0, it responds
as
> "can't read kernel memory". The "dmesg" has the permissions: -r-xr-xr-x.
> Could someone tell me what needs to be done in order to execute "dmesg"
> command successfully from "oracle" account.
>
> Thanks,
> --Babu
>
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