Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade

David,
  Have you checked to see if your shell doesn't have aliases of some sort set up? Also, I know that '!' is equivalent to 'host', but have you tried explicitly using 'host ls'. Are there any aliases in your shell for 'ls' ? Bradd Piontek
  "Next to doing a good job yourself,

        the greatest joy is in having someone
        else do a first-class job under your
        direction."

• William Feather

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:08 AM, David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Rats!
>
> orapr1_at_r3prdci1>which sqlplus
>
> /oracle/PR1/920_64/bin/sqlplus
>
> orapr1_at_r3prdci1>whence sqlplus
>
> /oracle/PR1/102_64/bin/sqlplus
>
> orapr1_at_r3prdci1>sqlplus
>
>
>
> SQL*Plus: Release *10.2.0.4.0* - Production on Tue Nov 4 11:33:50 2008
>
>
> And I tried the whole thing on the QA server (which was upgraded at the
> beginning of September and I have the same issue. Ditto with the
> development server that was upgraded in August. Interestingly enough, I do
> not have the issue on our 'new' sandbox.
>
> orasbx_at_sapsand>sqlplus / as sysdba
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Nov 4 12:07:14 2008
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
>
>
> Connected to:
> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit
> Production
> With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing
> options
>
> SQL> !ls
> 102_64 sapbackup
> Mail sapcheck
> SAPupg sapdata1
> brconnect_091708_1458.log sapdata2
> dead.letter sapdata3
> mbox sapdata4
> mirrlogA sapreorg
> mirrlogB saptrace
> oraInventory smit.log
> oraarch smit.script
> origlogA smit.transaction
> origlogB sqlnet.log
> saparch upgrade
>
> SQL>
>
> Now at least I have a known 'good' set of pathing and variables to check
> against.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM, David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Bingo.
>>
>> orapr1_at_r3prdci1>which sqlplus
>> /oracle/PR1/920_64/bin/sqlplus
>>
>>
>> Now the problem is why the heck is that still in the path. I suspect it
>> has to do with our AIX Systems Administrators and their invocation of HACMP
>> (which was dismantled but all the scripts left in place).
>>
>> orapr1_at_r3prdci1>echo $PATH
>>
>> /oracle/PR1/102_64/bin:/usr/sap/PR1/SYS/exe/run:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java14/jre/bin:/usr/java14/bin:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/scripts/operator:/opt/CA/UnicenterNSM/atech/services/bin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Nigel Thomas <
>> nigel.cl.thomas_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> None of your tests so far show you which directory you are actually in.
>>> It is possible that some kind soul has put a sqlplus shell script earlier in
>>> the PATH than the Oracle sqlplus executable which does something like:
>>>
>>> cd some-directory
>>> $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/bin/sqlplus
>>>
>>> So: to check this, you try the following:
>>>
>>> orapr1_at_r3prdci1> *which sqlplus*
>>>
>>> On most unixes *which* should tell you if you have a script in the way
>>> (and where it is hiding).
>>>
>>> Otherwise, try
>>>
>>> orapr1_at_r3prdci1> *pwd*
>>>
>>> orapr1_at_r3prdci1> *sqlplus user/pass*
>>> SQL>* !pwd*
>>>
>>> Are you in the same directory as before?
>>>
>>> Another way you could end up in a different directory is if your shell
>>> (eg ksh) runs a login, .profile, or other startup file (like .bashrc) which
>>> includes a *cd* command. Check *man ksh* for the files that are executed
>>> when you launch a new shell.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Regards Nigel
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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