Re: shell script lesson needed regarding oraenv script

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:35:49 -0600, Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote:

>The second thing the function does over and above oraenv is set the
>environment for LIB_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64.
>I've never paid much attention to these so am wondering if this is any
>real value or just over-engineering by the vendor.

Try unsetting these, and be prepared for unpleasant surprises!!! Those env vars are needed to resolve calls to dynamic libraries (just like Windows has DLLs, actually the dynamic shared library concept is way older than the DLL concept)

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA