On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Muratet wrote: > I am trying now to get DBD::Oracle working. The DBI install came off > without a hitch. The DBD perl build and the make worked OK (logs are > at the end). The first attempt at testing failed. I recalled something > I had read about file permissions and the user 'oracle'. I logged in > as oracle and all the tests were successful. sqlplus works but only > for user oracle. >
Installing Oracle by RPM? Not familiar with that. Also not too familiar with instant client. The problem you are experiencing is likely due to a lack of SGID on the oracle binary. In ORACLE_HOME there is likely a shell script named 'root.sh'. Shut down oracle and run root.sh, as root. It sets a number of permisions. That should take care of it.
