Unix file permission when file adatper generates the output file

When use file adapter to write a file on Linux, what is the permission of the output file?

The common assumption is it is determined by the umask of the user who owns the “Weblogic” java process. If a user runs startWeblogic.sh from the command line, then that user is the owner of Weblogic processes (many places use “oracle” or “weblogic” as the user to start webogic processes).

For the discussion, let’s assume the owner of “weblogic” logic process is “webadmin”. We need to generate an output file with “664” permission. However, we keep getting 644.

We double checked “webadmin” user has 002 umask. We also tried to play with the umask settings in startWeblogic.sh script to no avail.

So it’s gloves off time, I added java embed to change the output file permission by calling “setWrtiable(true, false)”, and that, opened another can of worms.

To my surprise, I stumbled on another unexplainable file adapter behavior. After the file adapter finished writing the file (with 644 permission), if I use java embed to open the file, and do any operations on the file (even just read it), then it TRUNCATES the output file. I thought it has to do with the transaction, so I tried to call check_point() before I open the file in java. It made no difference.

In the end, I just skipped the file adapter, use java embedding to generate the output file, then set the permission. Here is the snippet:

        try {                   

                String content = (String)getVariableData("csvOutput");   // grab file content                       

                String fileName = (String)getVariableData("fileName"); 

                fileName = "/output/"+fileName;

                FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(fileName);

                BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);

                out.write(content+"\r\n");

                out.close();

                                               

                java.io.File f = new java.io.File(fileName);

                f.setWritable(true, false);  // set permissions

                f.setReadable(true, false);

        }      catch(Exception e)      {

                System.out.println("*****file exception:"+e.getMessage());

        }

 There is an Oracle Note - 1430075.1 that covers the same issue. Oracle recommendation is to use java embedding, then do

   System.exec(“chmod…”);

I didn’t try that. Not sure how it works. Hope it doesn’t truncate the output file.