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Why $ORACLE_HOME has root privilege files ?

GTS (DBA)Sep 30 2015 — edited Oct 1 2015

Hi Everyone,

Why $ORACLE_HOME has root privilege files ? 

backsup $ORACLE_HOME for 10g

$ tar -czf /u04/bkp/orclhome_bkp.tar.gz db_1/

tar: db_1/bin/nmb: Cannot open: Permission denied

tar: db_1/bin/nmo: Cannot open: Permission denied

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

$ ls -l /u02/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin nm*

-rws--x---  1 root   oinstall  18598 Jul 17 03:21 nmb

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  18598 Jul 17 03:21 nmb.0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  50310 Apr 13  2010 nmcbufp

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall 811388 Jul 17 03:22 nmccollector

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall 811376 Apr 13  2010 nmccollector0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall 101161 Jul 17 03:21 nmei

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall      0 May 19  2004 nmei0

-rws--x---  1 root   oinstall  19828 Jul 17 03:21 nmo

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  19828 Jul 17 03:21 nmo.0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  72082 Jul 17 03:21 nmocat

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall      0 May 19  2004 nmocat0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  75190 Jul 17 03:21 nmupm

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall      0 May 19  2004 nmupm0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall  77251 Jul 17 03:21 nmus

-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle oinstall      0 May 19  2004 nmus0

Thanks in advance.

This post has been answered by Hemant Infy on Sep 30 2015
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