Re: Pls Help: Oracle 8.1.6 & Linux Install

From: nomenclature <nom_at_tonal.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 08:59:52 +0100
Message-ID: <39E17AF8.6258256B@tonal.net>

Richard Martes wrote:
>
> I am currently using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and want to install Oracle
> Enterprise Edition 8.1.6. I have successfully done the following: Created
> the sysdba, sysoper and oinstall groups, created the Oracle user and created
> the directory for the Oracle inventory.
>
> However, I am having problems setting the environment for the Oracle user
> account. I cannot find the Oracle account's login file to edit. In reading,
> I was told to open the $HOME/.bash_profile file.
>
> Please help me locate file in order to use the vi editor to set the
> environment variable. Thanks so much.

ls -al

executed in the home directory will
show files prefixed with a dot; if
there is no .bash_profile (or equivalent) then the user create was stuffed up and you can copy a .bash_profile from another user's home directory and edit that appropriately. Received on Mon Oct 09 2000 - 02:59:52 CDT