I actually got to try running the installer as root (per release note
installation instructions) and as ssadmin, since we have two OC servers. The
only difference was that running the installer as ssadmin prompted me for
the root user and password. The end result of both installations was the
same: the file ownership changed, but only on the files that the installer
touched.

$ sudo find $SPECROOT -user ssadmin | wc -l
72225
$ sudo find $SPECROOT -user root | wc -l
11670

Also, I could not have started SpectroServer / SCP as root because both of
these servers are only OneClick. When I ran the installer as root on our
Solaris 10 SpectroServers, I did not have any problems; everything continued
to be owned by ssadmin.

I don't know if anyone else will experience this issue. (Support claims that
a lot of the Linux problems they see are unique and not widespread.)
Regardless, I thought people would like to know that if they get an odd
error about missing files, the problem is actually file ownership. It's a
quick fix, but the error message was misleading.

Jim



On 2/1/10 2:52 AM, "Keßler, Christoph" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded our RHEL 5 system to H11 last week and didn't run into this issue.
> The file permissions and owner are the same like the ones before the upgrade.
> 
>> You should never run the installer as root.
> 
> It's normal to run the installer as root or as a user with sudo right.
> If you take the root account, the Spectrum installer (or the SRAdmin) will
> change the files to the specowner user.
> I think, Jim has started the SpectroServer / SCP as root and then some files
> (including the SSdb) get root as owner.
> 
> Regards
> 
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