Would setting alternatives for $TMP and $TMPDIR help (to something you are allowed to write in...) ? ________________________________ Van: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx namens Stefan Knecht Verzonden: di 11-7-2006 7:39 Aan: paulastankus@xxxxxxxxx CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Onderwerp: Re: FW: Oracle ufsdump One possible workaround could be to use sudo to grant the oracle user the right to execute ufsdump as root - although that could pose a security hole in your environment. what are the result of ls -al /dev/rdsk/c5t600015D000052A000000000000001336d0s0 ? Stefan On 7/10/06, Paula Stankus <paulastankus@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: As Oracle I am getting errors running the following commands that I do not get as root. The system admin. doesn't know why and I am switching to using TAR's but I don't know if there is any advantage, disadvantage to using TAR's. Any help would be appreciated: Here is the command: ufsdump -0lf /u005/dfsop03oradat.u001.test /u001/oradat/test This is the error: Please correct this problem and rerun the program. DUMP: Cannot open dump device `/dev/rdsk/c5t600015D000052A000000000000001336d0s0': Permission denied Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed below: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ / Please correct this problem and rerun the program. DUMP: Cannot open dump device `/dev/rdsk/c5t600015D000052A000000000000001336d0s0': Permission denied Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed below: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ / ________________________________ Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41244/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index>