Re: Oracle 10g2 on RHEL 5 - sqlplus problem

<nuffnough_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> I have jsut installed Oracle 10g2 on RHEL 5. I create my listener
> file. Set my environment variables (sid, ld library path, etc) and
> then, as the oracle user, I try to run sqlplus '/ as sysdba'. It
> does nothing. Doesn't report an error, just returns me back to my
> prompt.
>
> I have absolutely no idea where to start to troubleshoot this. I've
> been running this with RHEL3 for a couple of years now with no
> problems. I need to upgrade because the new hardware I am getting
> doesn't support RHEL3, but if I can't get sqlplus running, it is a
> showstopper.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> nuffi

Do you run the *correct* sqlplus executable ? Try doing "which sqlplus" to see the location of the executable. Maybe there is a shell script with the same name which is found first in your path.

Matthias Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 15:12:35 CDT