Odp: orainst on linux fails ...

U¿ytkownik Steve Sullivan <sullivan_at_indra.com> w wiadomo¶ci do grup dyskusyjnych napisa³:7stkca$e2a$1_at_net.indra.com...
> Hi -
> I'm installing Oracle 8.0.5 Server on RedHat 6.0 Linux.
> When I run the installer orainst I select all the defaults,
> and all possible products to install.
> But I get the message:
>
> A permission denied error occurred while trying to make the
> directory '/oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/orainst'. (Operation
> not permitted.) Would you like to retry the operation, ignore the
> error, or allow the error to be processed by the Installer?
>
> Yet "ls -al" shows the directory already exists, and is
> certainly accessible by userid "oracle":
>
> $ pwd
> /oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5
>
> $ ls -al
> total 5
> 1 drwx------ 5 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:46 ./
> 1 drwx------ 3 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 13:39 ../
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:43 bin/
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:46 dbs/
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:47 orainst/
>
> $ id
> uid=600(oracle) gid=600(dba) groups=600(dba)
>
> Similarly, all the directories /oracle01, /oracle01/app, ...
> are owned by oracle.dba.
>

It's true but nobody except root can make directory on root ./ (you had try).
Try to make your directory in oracle home directory ex. /home/oracle/oracle01
or anywhere else but not ./.

Best regards
Rony Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 16:52:14 CDT