Adam Turk wrote:
> From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
>> Adam Turk wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I was able to install Oracle 10gR2 on RHEL4U4 with selinux in
>> targeted enforcing mode. No selinux messages in /var/log/messages
>> or dmesg. I found a couple of scripts that will start and shutdown
>> the database and enterprise manager on boot and shutdown. I had a
>> couple of problems with this part and I am not sure if selinux is
>> the problem or not. Let me explain then I will post the code.
>>
>> I created a file called oracle in /etc/rc.d/init.d. I ran chkconfig
>> oracle reset. I then ran service oracle start. The database
>> wouldn't start. oracle calls the script dbstart which needs
>> ORACLE_HOME defined. If I add a export ORACLE_HOME=/path/to/oracle
>> to dbstart everything works. If I remove the export then the
>> database won't start. I was under the assumption that when I set
>> ORACLE_HOME in oracle it would be able to be used by dbstart. This
>> does not appear to be true. Is this a selinux problem, or did I
>> misunderstand something? To get the database to start I added the
>> export ORACLE_HOME to /etc/profile. Also when I do a init 6 or init
>> 0 the oracle service doesn't shutdown i.e. no shutting down oracle
>> ................
>>
> I would doubt this is an SELinux problem. You can always check for
> avc messages in /var/log/messages. You can also temporarily turn off
> enforcing mode "setenforce 0", then try it. If it is still broken
> while SELinux is in permissive mode, it is most likely not an SELinux
> problem.
SELinux is not causing the environmnet variable problem I discribed.
I will leave the ORACLE_HOME in /etc/profile and call it done.
On a side note, shouldn't selinux messages go into a /var/log/selinux
file instead of messages?
In RHEL5 they go to /var/log/audit/audit.log if auditing is turned on.
Thanks,
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