• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
The AIK is reporting errors when I try to create the Oracle User and DBA Group in the AIK, step 2-4. I have tried to do this using usernames oracle11 and oracle1, without success. Here is the error reported:

Create oracle user and dba group as root user

awk: insufficient memory for string storage Context is:
>>> <<<
awk: insufficient memory for string storage Context is:
>>> <<<

The group dba already exist.

The user oracle already exist.
awk: insufficient memory for string storage Context is:
>>> <<<
awk: insufficient memory for string storage Context is:
>>> <<<
Insert the alternative name instead oracle user (must be up to 8 characters alphanumerics lowercase) :oracle11

The user oracle11 will be created with same uid as user
add_user.sh: line 51: [: : integer expression expected
add_user.sh: line 60: [: : integer expression expected
Creating the oracle11 user : UX: /usr/sbin/useradd: ERROR: -o is not a valid user id. Choose another.

Info:Failed to create oracle11 user
Error: failed to create oracle user and dba group as root user

Resolution:
There were two versions of awk on this server, and the one that was being invoked by the script was the problem.

I removed the PATH statement from the ikit_2_4 script:

PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH

Site confirms that the other version worked correctly.

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013