Re: Help: password file name

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_nospam.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:59:25 +0100
Message-ID: <lf784vknts6g516l2q6pf128hdk4e923vj@4ax.com>

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:39:41 GMT, "charlie cs" <cs3526(no spam)@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am using 9.2 on Linux 7.2
>
>I created password file like this
>$orapw file=/opt/oracle/product/9.2/dbs/orapwtest.ora password=xxx entries=5
>
>that went well
>
>but create database failed with:
>ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed
>ORA-01990: error opening password file '/opt/oracle/product/9.2/dbs/orapw'
>ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
>
>Oracle is looking for orapw, how could I tell oracle password file is what I
>defined, instead of looking for the default one?
>Does this have anything to do with my set
>remote_login_passwordfile=exclusive?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>

The error message shows most likely you didn't set ORACLE_SID, because this environment variable is always concatenated with the default mask.

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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