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Staging for a rollout of EL 6, and ran into a very strange permissions issue with xinetd that defies all (my) logic. It's a script called "spfiled" that we use for messaging between our server cluster servers. I'm trying to get it to run with "least permissions necessary". Because it reads/writes files in conjunction with a web-based service, it runs as user "apache". Here's my xinet.d/spfiled.conf: (thi...

...being accessed on the primary channel on the fibre card). I have tried to create a database using DBCA several times. When I get to the initialization parameters screen to verify that the parameters are correct and click on next DBCA tells me that the mount point is not a valid raw device (for the spfile). I did start up the dbca utility with dbca -datafileDestination /u02/oradata/ . My colleague has made a tar with Oracle support and they tell us to get the latest OCFS which they said is 1.0.9.5. I did find that version but it's for the e37 kernel for IA64. Is there such a version available f...

This is pretty ugly. I''m using puppet to install Oracle, ie an exec{} wrapped around: /u01/oracle_extract/linux.x64_11gR2_database/database/runInstaller -silent -responseFile /etc/oracle_response.rsp The problem is that the damn installer backgrounds itself and returns control to the shell. I tried putting the above command in a script, followed by a wait command, but that