RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem
I typically set it to /tmp/oracle/$ORACLE_SID for each db that requires it. Never leave it *. Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/01 07:40AM if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? In a word yes...this allows read/write access to *all* directories and there is bound to be particular ones you don't want people to see. -Original Message- Sent: 03 December 2001 11:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I got one problem about UTL_FILE_DIR. My oracle version is 8i 8.1.6 Platform is unix sun solaris. I have set UTL_FILE_DIR to : /customer/ShopA and I write PL/SQL code to write a log file (A.txt )into /customer/ShopA When I execute the PL/SQL job through SQLPLUS, I hit error message saying that I can't write to the directory. the /customer/ShopA directory permission is set to 664. Let's say owner is A, and the group is A1 Can I tell the program to access the directory and write to the file as another user ? If I'm not wrong, the program will try to write into the directory using oracle unix account. Note : I don't want to set the write permission to other group. I have tried to include oracle in A1 group using secondary group, but it couldn't work. Can somebody tell me how to let oracle write into the directory and the file as well without changing the directory / file permission. if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Herman Susantio 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: Thomas, Kevin 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: Gene Sais 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).
UTL_FILE_DIR problem
Hi all, I got one problem about UTL_FILE_DIR. My oracle version is 8i 8.1.6 Platform is unix sun solaris. I have set UTL_FILE_DIR to : /customer/ShopA and I write PL/SQL code to write a log file (A.txt )into /customer/ShopA When I execute the PL/SQL job through SQLPLUS, I hit error message saying that I can't write to the directory. the /customer/ShopA directory permission is set to 664. Let's say owner is A, and the group is A1 Can I tell the program to access the directory and write to the file as another user ? If I'm not wrong, the program will try to write into the directory using oracle unix account. Note : I don't want to set the write permission to other group. I have tried to include oracle in A1 group using secondary group, but it couldn't work. Can somebody tell me how to let oracle write into the directory and the file as well without changing the directory / file permission. if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Herman Susantio 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).
RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem
It seems to me, I remember something like this. If I do remember correctly, you need the execute permissions for the directory, so it would need to be 775. Terry -Original Message- Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I got one problem about UTL_FILE_DIR. My oracle version is 8i 8.1.6 Platform is unix sun solaris. I have set UTL_FILE_DIR to : /customer/ShopA and I write PL/SQL code to write a log file (A.txt )into /customer/ShopA When I execute the PL/SQL job through SQLPLUS, I hit error message saying that I can't write to the directory. the /customer/ShopA directory permission is set to 664. Let's say owner is A, and the group is A1 Can I tell the program to access the directory and write to the file as another user ? If I'm not wrong, the program will try to write into the directory using oracle unix account. Note : I don't want to set the write permission to other group. I have tried to include oracle in A1 group using secondary group, but it couldn't work. Can somebody tell me how to let oracle write into the directory and the file as well without changing the directory / file permission. if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Herman Susantio 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: Ball, Terry 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).
RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem
if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? In a word yes...this allows read/write access to *all* directories and there is bound to be particular ones you don't want people to see. -Original Message- Sent: 03 December 2001 11:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I got one problem about UTL_FILE_DIR. My oracle version is 8i 8.1.6 Platform is unix sun solaris. I have set UTL_FILE_DIR to : /customer/ShopA and I write PL/SQL code to write a log file (A.txt )into /customer/ShopA When I execute the PL/SQL job through SQLPLUS, I hit error message saying that I can't write to the directory. the /customer/ShopA directory permission is set to 664. Let's say owner is A, and the group is A1 Can I tell the program to access the directory and write to the file as another user ? If I'm not wrong, the program will try to write into the directory using oracle unix account. Note : I don't want to set the write permission to other group. I have tried to include oracle in A1 group using secondary group, but it couldn't work. Can somebody tell me how to let oracle write into the directory and the file as well without changing the directory / file permission. if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Herman Susantio 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: Thomas, Kevin 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).
RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem
In particular, declare f utl_file.file_type; begin for i in ( select name from v$datafile order by file# desc ) loop f := utl_file.fopen( substr(i.name,1,instr(i.name,'/',-1)), substr(i.name,instr(i.name,'/',-1)+1), 'W'); utl_file.fclose(f); end loop; end; / which (pending fixing any compile errors) will do its best to reduce all datafiles in the database to 0 bytes finishing with SYSTEM. Cheers Connor --- Thomas, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? In a word yes...this allows read/write access to *all* directories and there is bound to be particular ones you don't want people to see. -Original Message- Sent: 03 December 2001 11:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I got one problem about UTL_FILE_DIR. My oracle version is 8i 8.1.6 Platform is unix sun solaris. I have set UTL_FILE_DIR to : /customer/ShopA and I write PL/SQL code to write a log file (A.txt )into /customer/ShopA When I execute the PL/SQL job through SQLPLUS, I hit error message saying that I can't write to the directory. the /customer/ShopA directory permission is set to 664. Let's say owner is A, and the group is A1 Can I tell the program to access the directory and write to the file as another user ? If I'm not wrong, the program will try to write into the directory using oracle unix account. Note : I don't want to set the write permission to other group. I have tried to include oracle in A1 group using secondary group, but it couldn't work. Can somebody tell me how to let oracle write into the directory and the file as well without changing the directory / file permission. if I set UTL_FILE_DIR = * would there be any security issue ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Herman Susantio 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: Thomas, Kevin 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). = Connor McDonald http://www.oracledba.co.uk (mirrored at http://www.oradba.freeserve.co.uk) Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= 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).
RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem
Connor, Can you please test your code before posting ;-) Larry G. Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214.954.1781 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Connor McDonald Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: UTL_FILE_DIR problem In particular, declare f utl_file.file_type; begin for i in ( select name from v$datafile order by file# desc ) loop f := utl_file.fopen( substr(i.name,1,instr(i.name,'/',-1)), substr(i.name,instr(i.name,'/',-1)+1), 'W'); utl_file.fclose(f); end loop; end; / which (pending fixing any compile errors) will do its best to reduce all datafiles in the database to 0 bytes finishing with SYSTEM. Cheers Connor -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Larry Elkins 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).
