Re: Help: password file name

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 7 Feb 2003 17:45:19 -0800
Message-ID: <92eeeff0.0302071745.5d4d02c1@posting.google.com>

"charlie cs" <cs3526(no spam)@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1YT0a.994$9y2.936_at_nwrddc01.gnilink.net>...
> 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.

Try it without .ora extension.

Regards
/Rauf Sarwar Received on Fri Feb 07 2003 - 19:45:19 CST