Oracle-L: RE: utl_file

From: Deshpande, Kirti <kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:54:17 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0056A435.20030314085417@fatcity.com>

Precisely....

But wouldn't it be nice if Oracle made '*', in the utl_file_dir specification, an unacceptable parameter value?

Kirti

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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:19 AM
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True, but any DBA who puts utl_file_dir=* into their parameter file should be hung, drawn and quartered anyway! Just imagine what the effect is - you've now given people rights to open system01.dbf, write to it and close it. Hmm, could that cause any problems? :)

Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA

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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:19 AM
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Good points, also consider the security issues that exist because of 'util_file_dir=*'. With that, any user that can run a procedure and write (or overwrite) files in locations that should be accessible only by oracle.

>>> Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com 03/14/03 07:08AM >>>
John,

In 9i, Oracle is recommending that you make use of 'CREATE DIRECTORY' rather than UTL_FILE_DIR ... firstly because a directory can be created dynamically, so to adda new sub-directory you don't have to bounce the instance.

Plus instead of '*', you can dynamically create directory ... read/write and drop the directory if you wish.

I'd recommend you make use of this feature John, because UTL_FILE_DIR might just go away .... because of its limitations.

Raj

Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot com
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:44 AM
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In 8i we set utl_file_dir = "*" because otherwise we have to specify lots of individual directories. It was not possible to just specify a top level directory.

Has this changed in 9i? Is it possible to specify a top level directory
and then utl_file can write to subdirectories?

John

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RE: utl_file_dir and 9i