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Old 10-26-2013
Hammer & Screwdriver Sqlplus inside shell script writing to tmp file
Hi,
facing an issue while calling sqlplus inside shell script. It for some reason goes to tmp file to write something and i get error as permission denied as i dont have access there.
ANy idea why sqlplus writes in /tmp and how to change or stop this ?
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Old 10-26-2013
The 1st thing to ask yourself is why doesn't every user on your system have permission to create files in /tmp?

Then you can look at your documentation for sqlplus. Is there an option to specify a different location for temp files?

Many UNIX and UNIX-like utilities that use non-trivial amounts of temporary file space will look for a TMPDIR environment variable. If $TMPDIR expands to the name of a directory and sqlplus uses the conventional meaning of TMPDIR, it will put temporary files in the directory named by $TMPDIR instead of in /tmp. So, you could try something like:
Code:
TMPDIR=/path/to/tmp_directory sqlplus args...

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Old 10-26-2013
Thanks Don
Thanks Don. Its on production so we dont have access on tmp. can we set diffrent location for specific shell ?
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