Oracle application or database failures due to files being deleted within the /tmp or /var/tmp directories

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Issue

  • There have been reports of randomly occurring hangs/crashes of the oracle DB. Oracle team has found out the cause is that file(socket files) are getting delete from /var/tmp/.oracle.
  • Oracle critical files are being deleted out of /tmp, how do we avoid that occurring?
  • The databases /var/tmp/.oracle socket is being deleted after a couple of weeks. What is causing that, and how do we stop it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Oracle workloads

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