Error on 11g 2 during external job execution using credential

Question

Hi,
I need a help from you.
I am getting below error on 11g 2 during external job execution using credentials -
EXTERNAL_LOG_ID="job_805812_412409",
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: Arg list too long
STANDARD_ERROR="Launching external job failed: Invalid username or password"
Find credentials creation & other required details -
EXECUTE DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_credential(credential_name =>'SYS.SCRIPTS',username =>'scripts',password => 'u5342222');
BEGIN
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(
job_name => 'AUTOLOAD_JOB',
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
job_action => '/qpshell/dev/scripts/autoload.sh',
repeat_interval => 'freq=MINUTELY;interval=5;byhour=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22;',
enabled => true,
auto_drop => false,
credential_name => 'SYS.SCRIPTS');
end;
-rw-r--r-- 1 root oinstall 1571 Nov 11 14:42 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/rdbms/admin/externaljob.ora
content of externaljob.ora -
run_user = nobody
run_group = nobody
run_user=scripts
run_group=qvcscript
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 13:13 extjob
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 13:13 extjobo
root@knudwdbs2:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin> ls -ltr extjob*
-rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 12:45 extjoboO
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 12:45 extjobO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 13:13 extjobo
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 3068424 Nov 11 13:13 extjob
Kindly suggest how it can be fixed. Early response much appreciated.
Thanks
Ajay
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Answer 1

Hi,
When you are logged in to the OS, can you do an "su" to the "scripts" user using this exact password (passwords are case-sensitive) ?
Also make sure that you have libpam.so located somewhere in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that it points to a real file.
external jobs with credentials use jssu, but I don't think permissions on jssu are the problem here (it should be setuid to root).
Hope this helps,
Ravi.