Re: Oracle7 Server & Solaris 2.5.1 Installation Woes

todd wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've been trying to get Oracle7 installed onto my patched Solaris 2.5.1
> Sparc
> (Ultra) but with no success.
>
> I'm using the 60 day trial CD and running './orainst /m' as the user
> 'oracle' in
> group 'dba' and 'umask 022' is set. Each time I try to install any/or
> all of the stuff
> from the CD, I keep getting:
>
> "platform_common.ins(233): PERMISSION_DENIED while making directory
> /var/local/oracle/ocommon"
>
> [ cut ]

A big thanks to all of you who responded directly to me. 'Debbie' ran into this issue as well, and she discovered that the 'USER' environment variable must be set for 'oracle', rather than 'root'. I'm not sure why Solaris does not set that variable correctly, 'cause I truly was logged in as 'oracle'. Anyway, use 'env' to see what that variable isset to and make sure it's correct.

Thanks for your time...Todd

> todd_at_livingston.com
Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT