From: "Mervyn at ifwdc.com" Subject: Re: libclntsh error Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: <8k5c02$1vtc$2@brimstone.medianet.ie>#1/1 References: <3965F92E.FD6CC07E@cska.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@medianet.ie X-Trace: brimstone.medianet.ie 962999106 65452 212.17.33.198 (7 Jul 2000 19:45:06 GMT) Organization: MediaNet Ireland X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:45:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Alex is correct. It's most likely that the environment parameter relating the library paths LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set correctly. The correct value is $ORACLE_HOME/lib I'm going on memory here - can anyone else confirm this? Merv. Alexander Penev wrote in message news:3965F92E.FD6CC07E@cska.net... > your unix user doesn't have the write enviroment. Just copy the > .profile from oracle home dir (user oracle) to your home dir and logon > again or just type . .profile > HTH