Oracle Support Scripts

The Oracle support scripts primarily perform steps such as creating appropriate Oracle users, and, for Linux systems, defining shared memory and creating semaphore settings. These scripts are contained in the OraSpt component. The support scripts are installed when you install the single-instance software.

Oracle Users and Groups

The OraSpt component creates one OS user and two OS groups:

• User: oracle

• Group: oinstall

• Group: dba

If a group exists in NIS or LDAP, the support scripts append “n1” to the group name. Thus, if a group dba exists, the plug-in creates a user n1dba.