Re: Oracle 6 tablespace problem

Hi Guy,

Are you sure it's not layers of dust and cobwebs that's causing the problems ;)

Richard
<gquesnel_at_magma.ca> wrote in message news:3d94d12a.450217_at_news.magma.ca...
> I am hopping that someone who encounterred this problem, a long time
> ago would remember how they went about fixing it ...
>
> Unix version : SunOS scotty 4.1.4 3 sun4c
> Oracle version : ORACLE RDBMS V6.0.33.1.1 - Production
>
> I am trying to create a tablespace but encountering privilege problems
> I have an osuser who belongs to dba group in the unix environment.
> ... using sqldba.
>
> SQLDBA> connect internal
> Connected.
> SQLDBA> create tablespace guy datafile '/b/ora/dbs/guy.dbf' size 1M;
> ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
> ORA-01116: error in opening database file
> '/b/ora/dbs/E70_emul_space_20.dat'
> ORA-07368: sfofi: open error, unable to open database file.
> SunOS Error: 13: Permission denied
>
>
> If the osuser is oracle , it works fine. -
>
> Also if we open up the security on the directory (777),
> the tablespace will get created, but the owner (and privileges) will
> be those of the OSUSER who called up SQLDBA (vs oracle).
>
> Is there a flag in Oracle 6, or does this sound like a program
> corruption ?
>
> I'd appreciate any hints or clues.
> Tia
> Guy Quesnel
Received on Sat Sep 28 2002 - 07:55:04 CDT