topic Re: Ownership in Operating System - HP-UX

Ownership

Jennifer Chiarelli — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:17:24 GMT

During startup I have a script I created in /sbin/rc3.d that will start a database. The database starts with root as the owner and this is not acceptable. How can I change the ownership during a system startup script?
None of my shell script books talk about this.

Re: Ownership

RikTytgat — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:43 GMT

Hi,

Because your startup script run as root, you can use the 'su' command to 'substitute user'.

Your startup script could contain for example following line:

su - oracle -c
See the su manpage for more details.

Hope this helps,
Rik.

Re: Ownership

Deshpande Prashant — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:54:20 GMT

HI
Add following lines in your start up script.
su - oracle -c 'lsnrctl start'
su - oracle -c 'dbstart'

similar for shutdown

su - oracle -c 'lsnrctl stop'
su - oracle -c 'dbshut'

Cheers.

Prashant

Re: Ownership

Jim Mulshine — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:47:45 GMT

I find it useful to also modify the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut script to perform "shutdown immediate" instead of only "shutdown". Otherwise you may be waiting a long time for all your database users to log out.