Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide for HP-UX

Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
3.4 Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
If you have created a path for the Oracle Clusterware home that is compliant with
Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines for Oracle software paths, then
you do not need to create an Oracle base directory. When OUI finds an OFA-compliant
path, it creates the Oracle base directory in that path.
For OUI to recognize the path as an Oracle software path, it must be in the form
u0[1-9]/app, and it must be writable by any member of the oinstall group.
Oracle recommends that you create an Oracle base path manually. The Optimal
Flexible Architecture path for the Oracle Base is /u01/app/user, where user is the
name of the user account that you want to own the Oracle Database software. For
example:
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle
3.5 Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM
Owners
If you create separate Oracle installation owner accounts for the database or ASM,
then complete the following tasks for the Oracle Database software owner (oracle)
and Oracle ASM software owner (asm).
■ If you create an Oracle base path, as described in the preceding section, then set
the path to the Oracle base directory as an environment variable for the Oracle
database owner. For example:
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# ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
■ Set the installation software owner user (asm, oracle) default file mode creation
mask (umask) to 022 in the shell startup file. Setting the mask to 022 ensures that
the user performing the software installation creates files with 644 permissions.
■ Set the software owners’ environment variable DISPLAY environment variables in
preparation for the ASM or Oracle Database installation