Michael,
The OACS installation instructions are:
root:~# mkdir /ora8
root:/ora8# cd /ora8
root:/ora8# mkdir -p m01 m02 m03/oradata/ora8
root:/ora8# chown -R oracle.dba /ora8
root:/ora8# exit
As you can see, this is taken from this page https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4/oracle.html and there is no mention that this directory should be joeuser.web since it's the oracle directory!
Note: The above mention refers to /ora8/m03 but it's the same as using m02.
Permissions 777 poses a security risk that I wouldn't be willing to take 😉.
