Re: HELP install Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux 2.0.36 (SuSE 6.0)

Michael <moores_at_my-deja.com> writes:

> In article <377dc728.9626143_at_news.unige.it>,
> alessandro.freda_at_bbs.olografix.org (Alessandro Freda) wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Following "Oracle 8 Installation Guide for Linux" have this paranormal
> > problems:
> >
> > First: pag.2-8, running orainst/oratab.sh from root seem don't works
> >

I had the same Problem and I did the following:

Look at the source of the oratab.sh script:

At the top of the script you will find something like:

        GROUPS = /bin/groups

change the name of the variable GROUPS (perhaps to ORA_GROUPS).

Change every occurrence of the variable.

Now it will work (I assume).

The Problem is, that in your environment there exists a read-only variable GROUPS (witch will tell you the number of your current group membership).

The oratab.sh-script tries to overwrite the variable (first line of your output) with the absolute path of your "groups" binary.

Later, the script attemps to execute the program $GROUPS (witch has the value "0" - the number of the root-group).

HTH Martin Boroske
Martin.Boroske_at_stud.uni-hannover.de Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 05:02:16 CDT