Path: news.f.de.plusline.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed2.scan-plus.net!news.mediascape.de!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:05:38 -0700 From: DA Morgan Organization: Puget Sound Oracle Users Group User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle user group References: <1178382338.565403.321440@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1178382338.565403.321440@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1178399135.426809@bubbleator.drizzle.com> Cache-Post-Path: bubbleator.drizzle.com!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@csolutions.net Xref: news.f.de.plusline.net comp.databases.oracle.server:197475 JMecc wrote: > I just installed Oracle on a Red Hat server per tutorial > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_10gdb_install.html#rhel4 > . From the 'oracle' unix user, I can use the database just fine, but > I can't start sqlplus from my unix account: > > bash-3.00$ sqlplus > sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > I've set environment variables per other internet discussions: > setenv ORACLE_HOME /database/Oracle10g > setenv ORACLE_BASE /database/Oracle10g One thing that jumps out immediately is that these should not be the same. Where is the bin directory? -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org