ORA-7320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga

Hi, I have an Oracle installation I have inherited. It is Oracle 7.2.2.3.0 production release.

I am running under Solaris 2.5.1 on an ultra Enterprise 1.

There is a unix user named oracle, who owns all the files in the oracle directory. There is a group called dba that has group ownership of all the files.

As the oracle user I can use sqlplus (version 3.2.2.0.0 production) to log into the database, but as any other user I get this message:

jabba:/home/dsacks> sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 3.2.2.0.0 - Production on Thu Aug 28 12:55:47 1997

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1994. All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: dennis
Enter password:
ERROR: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-07320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga. SVR4 Error: 13: Permission denied

My environment is exactly the same as the oracle user's environment.

Can anyone help me out?

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