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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:34:30 -0700
From: DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org>
Organization: Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Subject: Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted?
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Charles T. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:35:10 +0200, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 31 May 2007 10:18:33 -0700, DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>>> I have installed oracle 10g on solaris 10.  In order to get started, I
>>>> want to run sqlplus.  That's in
>>>> /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/Db_1/bin - but it turns out that all
>>>> of product, 10.2.0, Db_1 have permissions disabled for users (e.g.
>>>> drwxrwx---, with group oinstall).
>>>>
>>>> Did I not finish the installation properly?  Or am I supposed to enable
>>>> the permissions manually?  Does anybody know how to use sqlplus?
>>> No one knows ho to use sqlplus. <g>
>>>
>>> My guess is that you didn't read and follow the installation docs.
>>> http://docs.oracle.com
>>
>> Hmmm.  I'm not sure what that serves.  There's no mention of sqlplus on
>> that page.
>>
>> Presumably there's some other way to invoke the command line sqlplus than
>> simply from one's path - that's what this posting seems to want to taunt
>> with.  Or, maybe the poster didn't really read the OP and is just gushing
>> forth.
> 
> 
> Oh, but I'm not interested in using sqlplus via the browser, if that's
> what you mean.  But then, I'm guessing.
> 
> 
> I guess I'll start at A ...

Not what I meant.

Starting over and carefully following the docs is the recipe for success.
-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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