Jay, Thanks for your response. I have ful 777 privilege on the ORACLE_HOME where I am trying to run the sqlldr. Still the problem persists. Ram On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Sriramulu, Jayakumar < Jayakumar.Sriramulu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Might be a permission issue. Please give read and execute access to all > on $ORACLE_HOME folder recursively. > > > > Thanks, > > * **Jay* > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* ora-apps-dba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > ora-apps-dba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ramakrishnan Seshadhri > *Sent:* Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:32 AM > *To:* ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Run sqlldr as non-oracle user > > > > Greetings, > > > > I am trying to run sqlldr program as a non-oracle user (i.e. user other > than Oracle software owner) on Linux. > > I endup with the following error : > > > > [user@linux ~]$ sqlldr > Message 2100 not found; No message file for product=RDBMS, > facility=ULMessage 2100 not found; No message file for product=RDBMS, > facility=UL[user@linux ~]$ > > I have my PATH variable pointing to $ORACLE_HOME/bin and I am able to use > sqlplus escutable and connect to database from this unix account. > > > > Please let me know if there is any setup involved that must be done before > running sqlldr as other user. > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > Ram >