Unix administration - Re: df commands(s) hang; who; find; oracle user problem

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Re: df commands(s) hang; who; find; oracle user problem

JohnK

2006-12-12, 7:31 am

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:53:45 -0800, Joe wrote:

> I dont see the NFS mount points.
>
> Another issue that is happening is oracle user is represented by its UID
> I dont know why.
>
> When I try to login as oracle says something like id is unknown. I checked
> /etc/passwd& /etc/shadow. Oracle user is in those files. # groups oracle
> groups: oracle : No such user
> # id oracle
> id: invalid user name: "oracle"
>
> What would the best option to reintialize oracle user?
>
> Thanks
> Joe

It sounds to me like you have a problem which you need to diagnose rather
than deal with symptoms like the oracle user. Run dmesg for any hardware
errors and check your syslog for messages which might give a clue.

JohnK