Chapter 20
UNIX Tips and Tricks for the Oracle DBA
Donald K. Burleson
While Oracle DBAs are supremely charged with managing their Oracle databases, Oracle DBAs in the UNIX environment must also possess the knowledge to control how Oracle interacts with the external environment. This chapter examines the essential UNIX commands that every Oracle DBA must know.
What About “Root”?
In many cases, this involves using commands that are only available with the “root” UNIX user. Very often, the Oracle DBA requires root privileges to perform tasks outside the domain of the Oracle UNIX user, such as killing a user process, mounting a remote file system, or changing file permissions. Root privileges are also required to sign-on to UNIX as another UNIX ...
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