Reading a file using UTL_FILE.

Hai,

I am working in an IBM AIX machine, with Oracle 8i.
I am trying to read a file through UTL_FILE read.
The directory which has the file does not have any permisions for the
others. It is restricted to 750.
The file belongs to a local user and group.

So, as workaround we added our local user to the secondary group of oracle, so that oracle user also has the same access permissions as the local user. But still we were not able to read the file from the procedure.

Do we need to restart oracle ?
will be happy if anyone can advice.Is your UTL_FILE_DIR parameter correct in init.ora ?

If not add it and restart database

Originally posted by Anandraj
Hai,

I am working in an IBM AIX machine, with Oracle 8i.
I am trying to read a file through UTL_FILE read.
The directory which has the file does not have any permisions for the
others. It is restricted to 750.
The file belongs to a local user and group.

So, as workaround we added our local user to the secondary group of oracle, so that oracle user also has the same access permissions as the local user. But still we were not able to read the file from the procedure.

Do we need to restart oracle ?
will be happy if anyone can advice.|||Originally posted by ndu35
Is your UTL_FILE_DIR parameter correct in init.ora ?

If not add it and restart database

Hai ndu35,

Thanks for that suggestion. Anyway the entry is already present in init.ora. Also the database was restarted immediately.