FYI: RMAN on [Mandrake] Linux

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:36:21 -0000
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703741B16@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>

Just a quick one.

I intstalled Oracle 9i Release 2 Enterprise Edition on my Mandrake 9.0 Linux box. I had a few problems but these were easily overcome :o)

I have never used RMAN before, but I thought I'd giove it a try - just to see what happens. I types 'rman' into the command line and nothing happened. Now I knew to expect an 'RMAN>' prompt, but I had nothing at all. The system looked suspiciously like it was trying to read from stdin (standard input) so I CTRL-D'd it, and sure enough, I got back to my normal linux prompt.

A quick 'man rman' showed that rman is Linux's 'Reverse MAN' utility, which converts a man page back into source text for editing and nothing to do with Oracle databases.

To this end, I need to run bin/rman or $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman to get where I want to be :o)

Just in case anyone finds something similar on other flavours of Linux.

Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk

Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com


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