Re: Pls Help: Newbie Question

From: Flotsam <none_at_all.here>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:42:09 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn8u4bd0.760.none@kansas.net>

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:37:24 -0700, Richard Martes <rmartes_at_usa.net> wrote:
>I am having difficulty finding a recently new added account's logon file to
>edit. I am very new to Linux and want to install Oracle 8.16 on my Mandrake
>7.1.
>
>However, need to locate and edit user account's logon file to set
>environment for Oracle. I was told to use vi editor to edit file in
>$HOME/.bash_profile.

The default value of HOME is /home/<userid>/

You can display all current variables with......]$ printenv

>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
>
>DISPLAY=rmartes:0.0; export DISPLAY
>ORACLE_BASE=usr/oraInventory; export ORACLE_BASE
>ORACLE_HOME=/usr/oracle; export ORACLE_HOME
>ORACLE_SID=oralin; export ORACLE_SID
>PATH=$PATH:oracle/bin; export PATH
Received on Mon Oct 09 2000 - 15:42:09 CDT