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Connection problem if parameter HOME is set

From: Stephen Andert <StephenAndert_at_firsthealth.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:53:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049CC6E.20020719095327@fatcity.com>


A colleague of mine has encountered something strange. When the HOME environement variable is set to the oracle users home (/usr/users/oracle) we can't connect to any oracle databases. When it is set to anything else (or to nothing) everything works fine. What is wrong with that directory to cause this?

Also, this is only happening on one host and not on others.

We are on Compaq Tru64 5.1 unix and a variety of 8i databases.

Any clues?

-->$ pwd

/usr/users/oracle  

-->$ echo $HOME

/usr/users/oracle  

-->$ sqlplus oradba_at_web1i
 

SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production on Fri Jul 19 09:04:10 2002  

(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.  

Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-12505: TNS:listener could not resolve SID given in connect descriptor  

-->$ unset HOME
 

-->$ sqlplus oradba_at_web1i
 

SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production on Fri Jul 19 09:04:58 2002  

(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.  

Enter password:  

Connected to:
Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production  

Stephen

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