Category: Linux for Database

Linux for Database

Nov 06

Docker on Oracle Linux 8 with no access to the internet (yum error)

Those days, after deploying a brand new Oracle Linux 8 from OCI, I deployed docker-ce on it to install a new Oracle Database based on docker. However, when trying to build the database docker image, I started to receive an strange error that was not happening on Oracle Linux 7. I was receiving an strange error …

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Feb 14

Installing and running Oracle Database 19.2.0.0 on Oracle Linux 7

In this article I will describe how to install the very first available release of Oracle Database 19c (19.2.0.0) binaries on Oracle Linux 7.6. Even though it's not officially released for Oracle Linux non-Exadata yet, in edelivery it is available an Exadata DB version that is compatible with your local machine running OL. Use it for test …

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Aug 17

Oracle Database causing Linux auditd logs to grow fast

Those days I was having some issues on some of my Oracle Linux 6 servers (VMs in OCI), with some Oracle Databases running still in project phase. I could notice /var/log/audit folder size growing abnormally (around ~80MBs day) [root@ocasxxxt00dbre1 audit]# ls -ltrh | tail -n 30 -r--------. 1 root root 6.1M Aug 15 10:24 audit.log.29 …

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Jul 09

Oracle RAC in VMWare hangs with ORA-27072: File I/O error

During three months, I have had constant problems of an Oracle RAC installation suddenly hanging. The system was as follows: O.S: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga) - x86_64 Kernel: 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 VMWare: VMware ESXi 5.0 Oracle 11.2.0.3 PSU 6 Oracle homes in different drives and shared disks for RAC via VMFS It was …

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May 23

Howto force password for sysdba user access

In many situations, the DBA is faced with the scenario where many company teams end up having access to the root password of the machine where Oracle is installed. These teams are usually the Infrastructure, the Backup, the Deployment, etc.. In this case, it is very easy to root user run a "su - oracle" …

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