I managed to create the ACFS Mount Point after resolving the issue “ACFS-9459: ASVM/ACFS is not supported on this os version”. But, after creating the ACFS Mount Point, I’m unable to create or touch any files under this ACFS Mount Point.
Though, I tried to touch a file to create files under this ACFS Mount Point using OS User Oracle and Root, it’s failing with the following error:
“touch: cannot touch `x’: Permission denied”
Here are the steps I tried and got the error:
The ACFS Mount Point “/oracle/uat” has been created on Linux 6.5 server using Oracle ASMCA tool, and this “/oracle/uat” mount point has 775 permission.
As Oracle User:
[oracle@Li42 ~]# df -m|grep -i asm
/dev/asm/oracle_uat-77 35840 148 35693 1% /oracle/uat
[oracle@Li42 ~]# cd /oracle/uat
[oracle@Li42 uat]# pwd
/oracle/uat
[oracle@Li42 uat]# ls -ld /oracle/uat
drwxrwxr-x. 4 oracle dba 4096 Sep 15 19:29 /oracle/uat
[oracle@Li42 uat]# ls
lost+found
[oracle@Li42 uat]# touch abc
touch: cannot touch `abc’: Permission denied
[oracle@Li42 uat]#
As Root user:
[root@Li42 ~]# df -m|grep -i asm
/dev/asm/oracle_uat-77 35840 148 35693 1% /oracle/uat
[root@Li42 ~]# cd /oracle/uat
[root@Li42 uat]# pwd
/oracle/uat
[root@Li42 uat]# ls -ld /oracle/uat
drwxrwxr-x. 4 oracle dba 4096 Sep 15 19:29 /oracle/uat
[root@Li42 uat]# ls
lost+found
[root@Li42 uat]# touch abc
touch: cannot touch `abc’: Permission denied
[root@Li42 uat]#
The problem was the SELinux is enabled on the Linux System.
To check, if SELinux is enable/disable on the system, cat the file “/etc/selinux/config”
Note: Used the root login to do the following steps:
[root@Li42]# cat /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive – SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled – No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted – Targeted processes are protected,
# mls – Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
Or use the sestatus command to check the status.
[root@geuatb850 uat]# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: disabled
Policy version: 28
Policy from config file: targeted
Here is how to disable SElinux:
Method 1- Edit “/etc/selinux/config” and set the SELINUX variable to ‘disabled’
Method 2- Use the setenforce command to disable on-the-fly
If you go with Method 1, then your changes are permanent but only effective if you reboot the machine.
If you go with Method 2, then your changes are NOT permanent but effective immediately.
Method 1: (Permanent Change)
Take the backup of “/etc/selinux/config” file.
[root@Li42]# cp /etc/selinux/config /etc/selinux/config.bkp
Then edit “/etc/selinux/config” the file and set the SELinux variable to ‘disabled’
[root@Li42]# cat /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive – SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled – No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted – Targeted processes are protected,
# mls – Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
Then reboot the server!!
Method 2: (On-the-fly)
[root@Li42]# getenforce
Enforcing
[root@Li42]# setenforce
usage: setenforce [ Enforcing | Permissive | 1 | 0 ]
[root@Li42 uat]# setenforce 0
[root@Li42 uat]# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: disabled
Policy version: 28
Policy from config file: targeted
[root@Li42]# getenforce
Disabled
After the SELinux is disabled, then creating the files under ACFS Mount Point is succeeded.
Note: The above commands have to be completed by root user and do this under system admin supervision.
