oracle will be writing to the directories ... so add the Oracle RDBMS owner in the group owning the directory OR let the owner of the directory be the application user but change the group to dba. In either case, you would need chmod g+w on the directory.
Hemant K Chitale Principal DBA Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd John Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/2002 05:53 PM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: CHITALE Hemant Krishnarao/IT/CHRT/ST Group) Subject: Unix permissions Since we use utl_file to read/write files from our application directories(which are not owned by oracle), we need to set the permissions on these directories so that Oracle has permission to read and write to them. However we run into problems because Systems Admin guys do not like : 1. setting 777 permissions on the directories 2. making our application user a member of the oracle group Anyone had the same problems? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).