Re: ORA-1034 ORACLE not available

In article <3pfsla$ed_at_marvin.muc.de>, Wolfgang Neubert (won_at_colin.muc.de) writes:
>I have installed ORACLE 7.1.4 on SCO ODT 3.0. After installation I created a new
>user won with sqldba. After that I can connect to the database with
>sqlplus only when I am logged in SCO as user oracle. When I log into SCO
>as user won I can not connect to Oracle as won nor as system. When I try it
>there comes the error:
>ORA-1034 ORACLE not available
>ORA-7320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga.
>AT&T .... Error:13:permission denied
>
>This seems to be a permission problem, but all files in $ORACLE_HOME
>have permission 644 or 755. So what is wrong ?
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Wolfgang
>
Hi Wolfgang,

This is just a guess, but did you set the Orcale environmental pointers in the login script (,cshrc or whatever?).

Regards,
Alex Long

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