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Re: A bit of Linux advice yet again??

From: Eric Parker <Eric_Parker_spamless_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:57:27 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <b1g5m7$alm$1@helle.btinternet.com>


Howard
What shell are you using ?
.profile for bash, ksh, zsh and sh
.login for csh and tcsh
HTH
eric
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:0FK_9.38003$jM5.96462_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> OK, maybe I should post this in a Linux newsgroup, but...
>
> Against all the odds, I've gotten 9.2 to run on Mandrake 9.0 (which, I
have
> to say, is the first Linux distro I've seen that's persuaded me there are
> viable alternatives to Windows). I have a "DB9" instance/database and an
> OEMREP instance/database. Log on as the Oracle user, and there's not a
> problem.
>
> But I want to log on as me. So, I create a .profile in my home directory
> that sets all the usual variables, including path.
>
> I reboot the machine, just because I'm a former Windows user and we're
used
> to that sort of thing. I log on as me. I open a terminal window, and type
> 'sqlplus', and I get the error 'command not found'.
>
> I then type ". ./.profile", and the 'sqlplus' command works perfectly.
>
> Now, I realise I only know the backend of batch files, but I was rather
> under the impression that .profile would be invoked the moment I logged
in.
> So why isn't it? What am I doing wrong (try and keep the list modestly
> short!).
>
> Oh -one other thing. I know all about oratab, and I *do* get both my
> instances starting automatically at reboot. But how does one automate the
> intelligent agent and listener? oratab doesn't seem syntactically capable
of
> doing these, so I guess I must look elsewhere. Am I deep into shell
> scripting at this point??
>
> Forebearance for a Windows user, please. I am at least trying!!
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 01 2003 - 03:57:27 CST

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