fuser permissions

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

Out Pracle DBA was trying to install a patch - says to be run by oracle user - and came across an error. It was trying to run the fuser command but on our systems the fuser command is only executable by the owner (bin)

Is it ok for me to change the execute permissions on the command or should the Oracle patch be installed by root?

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

Actually, there was a patch released recently which fixes it so any user can run fuser, PHCO_29349

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,

runInstaller and OPatch should be run by the oracle user not by root.

I see no problem to give access to fuser the oracle user. Revoke it after the patch is applied in case you are in doubt.

I think OPatch uses fuser to make sure tha the files to be patched are not active.

Volker

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

Thanks guys!