lk file

[KenCunningham]

Hi folks,

I've just discovered a lk<SID> file residing on our Solaris machine and this appears to be affecting users, giving them ORA 00060 errors. Has anyone any idea what might be the cause and solution of/to this please? Many thanks in advance.

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, forgot to say. The contents of the lk file are:

DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE!

Should I be worrying?

Thanks.

 

[tdatgod]

Hi,
NCR used to sell a product called &quot;Life Keeper&quot; which allowed a single instance of oracle to run on a pair of clustered machine with shared scsi. If the one node crashed Life keeper would detect it and automatically start up the instance again on the other machine. Once the original machine was back it it would terminate the instance and restart it on the original node.

I don't know maybe this LK<SID> file is one of its files.

NCR has since sold life keeper to some other company.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks. As far as I'm aware we have no such facility. The problem seems to have resolved itself in terms of the users anyway, so it probably wasn't the lk file causing the problem. I'll ask our application people whether they've written anything to create this file. Regards.