Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:30:46 +0200
Message-ID: <f41qnh$3a1$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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Charles T. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote:
>
> Charles T. Smith wrote:

>>>> oh!  Is that the explanation?  I've installed the server, but in order
>>>> to have non-oinstall users use it, I need to also install the client?
>>>>
>>>> Where is the client?  I don't find it on www.oracle.com - except
>>>> something for linux - but I'm running solaris.
>>>>

> There's the possibility to install "client only" from every server CD I've
> seen so far (which did not include Solaris...) It's still a bold 200MB or
> something like that.
>
>

>> I still think there's something fishy here.  I can use sqlplus from the
>> account where oracle is loaded, I just can't use it from other accounts -
>> without manually intervening.  Considering the level of professionalism
>> that oracle apparently aspires to, I suspect this would be a bug ... if
>> it weren't an operator error.

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>
>
> And of course there's this;
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html
>
>

>> No, that's even more of the same.  I want to use what's already there. 
>> When you first mentioned client install, I thought it might just add a
>> different configuration.  But a whole new 20 meg. or db-less install...
>> no, I don't think that's it.

What about root.sh? It should set permissions, just not sure it sets them on sqlplus, too. Does not harm to run it again. In case you also have root.sh.old, see what that gives, and possibly rerun root.sh.old.
These files reside in your $ORACLE_HOME
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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