Re: invoking sqlplus giving error

Jagjeet Singh wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anybody please look into this. I have installed oracle 920 on
> Redhat ES 3.
> But while invoking sqlplus I am getting this error.
>
> ##########################################
> [ora9_at_vicky admin]$ uname -a
> Linux vicky.oracle.com 2.4.21-4.EL #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 2003 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [ora9_at_vicky admin]$
> [ora9_at_vicky admin]$ set | grep ORACLE
> ORACLE_BASE=/ora9/app/oracle/product
> ORACLE_HOME=/ora9/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
> ORACLE_SID=db1
> [ora9_at_vicky admin]$ sqlplus
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Sun Jan 28 12:23:41 2007
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Enter user-name: / as sysdba
> ERROR:
> ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist
>
>
> ##########################################
>
> Regards,
> Jagjeet Singh
>

Did you check the obvious? Is there an instance called DB1 running under the home /ora9/app/oracle/product/9.2.0 ??

Cheers,
Brian

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