Setting External Jobs Ownership for Installations on HP-UX

On HP-UX platforms only, complete the following procedure to set external jobs ownership to the low-privilege user extjob:

  1. Log on as root.
  2. Change directory to the Oracle Database Oracle home:
    # cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/
    
  3. Open externaljob.ora with a text editor, and find the parameters run_user and run_group.
  4. Set run_user to the external jobs user (extjob), and set run_group to a low-privileged group, such as other. For example:
    run_user=extproc
    run_group=other
    
  5. Save the file.

    Note:

    Modify externaljob.ora only as root.