On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 06:30 +1100, Pete Sharman wrote: > Are they disappearing completely or is the protection mapping the > issue? In RH4 raw devices are remapped on startup so you need to edit > he /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions file so that the OCR > devices are set up as root:oinstall:660 and the voting devices > <crs_kernel_owner>:oinstall:644 (or something like that, check the > install guide for correct protections). > > or adding something like this to /etc/rc.local (raw1 OCR and raw2 is voting), which I think is what the installation docs suggests. chown root:oinstall /dev/raw/raw1 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw1 chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw2 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw2 chown oracle:oinstall /dev/sdb1 chown oracle:oinstall /dev/sdb2 chmod 660 /dev/sdb1 chmod 660 /dev/sdb2 But editing /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions is a more elegant solution I think (and new to me). /johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l