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Oracle SQL script to display ORACLE users on a SAP system

Mr. John Kerr — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:39:21 GMT

Hi,
I am trying to write a script to display Oracle users in a SAP system for SOX compliance, i want to cron the script to run at the begining of every Month.
However the script doesnt seem to be working.

Any ideas, below is the script.
#!/usr/bin/csh
$(ORACLE_HOME)/bin/sqlplus / as sysdba < /dev/null
spool /tmp/oracle_users.txt
select username, account_status from dba_users;
spool off;
exit;
EOF

Re: Oracle SQL script to display ORACLE users on a SAP system

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:49:26 GMT

First make sure that your script can run from a shell as the cron'ed user. Unless there is an extremely compelling reason, I would not use csh. Under cron, which intentionally has a very sparse environment, ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, and essentially all but a handful of variables are not defined. Moreover PATH is extremely limited as well. You need to explicitly set and export any needed environment variables within the cron'ed script before you ever invoke sqlplus.

Re: Oracle SQL script to display ORACLE users on a SAP system

Volker Borowski — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:28:30 GMT

I agree with Clay,

should go like this:
put in your ORACLE_SID for xxx
and adjust 102_64 to 920_64 if not upgraded yet.

This script by the way would normally not be ruanble as root, because root does not belong to group "dba" and will therefore never be able to connet as sysdba. So I guess you'll run it as orasid ?!

#!/usr/bin/csh
setenv ORACLE_SID xxx
setenv ORACLE_HOME /oracle/${ORACLE_SID}/102_64

${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus ..... rest is ok

Volker