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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:57:31 -0600
From: "Andrew Kerber" <andrew.kerber@gmail.com>
To: niall.litchfield@gmail.com
Subject: Re: linux environment question
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I would like to hear the answer to that one when you find it.  I did not
have the problem in Linux in Opensuse 10.2.  What distro did you use?

On Dec 20, 2007 8:37 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@gmail.com>
wrote:

> all
>
> I'm betraying my ignorance here so be gentle. We configured an oracle
> account with an ORACLE_HOME environment variable ( in .bash_profile) of
>
> /path/to/oracle/home
>
> and also set the PATH as $ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH $ORACLE_SID was also set
> correctly.
>
> connecting to the running database gave 'initialisation or shutdown in
> progress'. If however we ran oraenv we were able to connect. On comparison
> we discovered that if we set ORACLE_HOME as
>
> /path/to/oracle/home/  (trailing /)
>
> then we could connect just fine. My question is why is the trailing slash
> apparently necessary?
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
>


-- 
Andrew W. Kerber

'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'

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I would like to hear the answer to that one when you find it.&nbsp; I did not have the problem in Linux in Opensuse 10.2.&nbsp; What distro did you use?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 20, 2007 8:37 AM, Niall Litchfield &lt;<a href="mailto:niall.litchfield@gmail.com">
niall.litchfield@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>all</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>I&#39;m betraying my ignorance here so be gentle. We configured an oracle account with an ORACLE_HOME environment variable ( in .bash_profile) of</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>/path/to/oracle/home</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>and also set the PATH as $ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH $ORACLE_SID was also set correctly. </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>connecting to the running database gave &#39;initialisation or shutdown in progress&#39;. If however we ran oraenv we were able to connect. On comparison we discovered that if we set ORACLE_HOME as </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>/path/to/oracle/home/&nbsp; (trailing /) </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>then we could connect just fine. My question is why is the trailing slash apparently necessary? </div><font color="#888888">
<div><br>-- <br>Niall Litchfield<br>Oracle DBA<br><a href="http://www.orawin.info" target="_blank">http://www.orawin.info</a> </div>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andrew W. Kerber<br><br>&#39;If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.&#39;

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