Oracle 10g on FC2T1

[K,N,D Farnik]

Hi 
Looking forward to your solution!
Thanks, Kym

>M A Young writes:
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:23
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Janusz Sadowski wrote:
> 
> > It looks like it's a kernel thing. One guy says he switched 
> to kernel 2.6 on
> > SUSE9.0 and got the same error.
> 
> The problem seems to be when oracle does a particular shmget call
> shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, some number, IPC_CREAT|IPC_EXCL|IPC_NOWAIT|0600)
> to sort out its shared memory. In 2.6 it seems you need extra kernel
> capabilities for this to work (I think CAP_IPC_LOCK).
> 
> I do have a way around this, but it is too much of a bad idea 
> to share at
> the moment. The correct solution would be to find some way of granting
> this extra capability to the oracle user or appropriate 
> executables, which
> you might be able to do with selinux, and I have an idea of 
> how it might
> be done more safely without selinux.