Re: help - can't start SQL PLUS
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:24:29 GMT
Message-ID: <hywE9.126$GK6.12020032_at_newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>
bob barker wrote:
> Hi - it took me three excruciating days JUST to install Oracle 9i on my
> Linux machine. Now the problem is...I can not start SQL PLUS as oracle
> user. Here is my environmental settings...would appreciate it if someone
> could help. -don't give me any links to any docs...because I probably
> went there already...thanks!
>
> ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle/oraInventory; export ORACLE_BASE
> ORACLE_HOME=/usr/oracle/9.0; export ORACLE_HOME
> ORACLE_SID=shitbox; export ORACLE_SID
>
> PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$HOME/bin
> export PATH
> unset USERNAME
>
Don't know if this is the problem.
I would expect ORACLE_BASE=/usr/oracle.
I've always made ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.0...
But maybe that's just the way I've always set it up. Might not be a requirement after all. Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 22:24:29 CET