RE: linux environment question

Niall,

Make sure someone didn't try starting another instance.  

It's all case sensitive.  

Not sure why you require a trailing slash in your system. I don't have trailing slash and all works fine.  

What linux version?  

I'm onRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)    

Ted    

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:37 AM To: oracle-l
Subject: linux environment question  

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?

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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