Oracle privilege missing for DBMS_SCHEDULER, ORA-27486 after GRANT CREATE JOB, CREATE EXTERNAL JOB

Question

What additional privilege am I missing?

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL>
SQL> create user myUser identified by password default tablespace theData temporary tablespace temp;

User created.

SQL> grant connect, resource to myUser;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> GRANT READ,WRITE ON DIRECTORY tmp TO myUser;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> GRANT CREATE JOB TO myUser;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> GRANT CREATE EXTERNAL JOB TO myUser;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> connect myUser/password
Connected.
SQL>
SQL>
1 CREATE PROCEDURE shellScript
2 AS
3 /*-----------------------*/
4 v_sql UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
5 v_shell UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
6 /*=======================*/
7 BEGIN
8 /*=======================*/
9 -- write the sql script to /tmp/myUser-tmp-script.sql
10 v_sql:= UTL_FILE.FOPEN('TMP','myUser-tmp-script.sql','w');
11 UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(v_sql,'select to_char(sysdate,''YYYYMMDDHR24MISS'') from dual'||';', FALSE);
12 UTL_FILE.FFLUSH(v_sql);
13 UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(v_sql);
14 -- write the shell script to /tmp/myUser-tmp-script.sh
15 v_shell:= UTL_FILE.FOPEN('TMP','myUser-tmp-script.sh','w');
16 UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(v_shell,'#!/bin/bash', FALSE);
17 UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(v_shell,'sqlplus myUser/password@sbox @/tmp/myUser-tmp-script.sql > /tmp/myUser-tmp-script.err', FALSE);
18 UTL_FILE.FFLUSH(v_shell);
19 UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(v_shell);
20 -- execute the shell script which executes the sql script
21 DBMS_SCHEDULER.PURGE_LOG(JOB_NAME=>'myJob');
22 DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(JOB_NAME=>'myJob', JOB_TYPE=>'EXECUTABLE', JOB_ACTION=>'/bin/bash', NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS=>1, START_DATE=>SYSTIMESTAMP, ENABLED=>FALSE);
23 DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_JOB_ARGUMENT_VALUE('myJob', 1, '/tmp/myUser-tmp-script.sh');
24 DBMS_SCHEDULER.ENABLE('myJob');
25 USER_LOCK.SLEEP(500); -- give it 5 seconds to complete
26 -- clean up
27 UTL_FILE.FREMOVE('TMP', 'myUser-tmp-script.sh');
28 UTL_FILE.FREMOVE('TMP', 'myUser-tmp-script.sql');
29 /*=======================*/
30 END shellScript;
/

Procedure created.

SQL> SHOW ERRORS PROCEDURE shellScript
No errors.
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> execute shellScript;
BEGIN shellScript; END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-27486: insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_ISCHED", line 411
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_ISCHED", line 452
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER", line 1082
ORA-06512: at "MYUSER.SHELLSCRIPT", line 21
ORA-06512: at line 1

SQL>

Solution 1

Wow, I found the problem... "myJob" was an existing package object in the database. I'm guessing my "insufficient privileges" were to replace the package object with a job object.

Solution 2

According to TFM, PURGE_LOG requires the MANAGE SCHEDULER privilege:

GRANT MANAGE SCHEDULER TO xxx;