Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade

  • From: "David Barbour" <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:08:56 -0500

Rats!

orapr1@r3prdci1>which sqlplus

/oracle/PR1/920_64/bin/sqlplus

orapr1@r3prdci1>whence sqlplus

/oracle/PR1/102_64/bin/sqlplus

orapr1@r3prdci1>sqlplus



SQL*Plus: Release *10.2.0.4.0* - Production on Tue Nov 4 11:33:50 2008


And I tried the whole thing on the QA server (which was upgraded at the
beginning of September and I have the same issue.  Ditto with the
development server that was upgraded in August.   Interestingly enough, I do
not have the issue on our 'new' sandbox.

orasbx@sapsand>sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Nov 4 12:07:14 2008

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing
options

SQL> !ls
102_64                     sapbackup
Mail                       sapcheck
SAPupg                     sapdata1
brconnect_091708_1458.log  sapdata2
dead.letter                sapdata3
mbox                       sapdata4
mirrlogA                   sapreorg
mirrlogB                   saptrace
oraInventory               smit.log
oraarch                    smit.script
origlogA                   smit.transaction
origlogB                   sqlnet.log
saparch                    upgrade

SQL>

Now at least I have a known 'good' set of pathing and variables to check
against.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM, David Barbour <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Bingo.
>
> orapr1@r3prdci1>which sqlplus
> /oracle/PR1/920_64/bin/sqlplus
>
>
> Now the problem is why the heck is that still in the path.  I suspect it
> has to do with our AIX Systems Administrators and their invocation of HACMP
> (which was dismantled but all the scripts left in place).
>
> orapr1@r3prdci1>echo $PATH
>
> /oracle/PR1/102_64/bin:/usr/sap/PR1/SYS/exe/run:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java14/jre/bin:/usr/java14/bin:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/scripts/operator:/opt/CA/UnicenterNSM/atech/services/bin
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Nigel Thomas <
> nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> David
>>
>> None of your tests so far show you which directory you are actually in. It
>> is possible that some kind soul has put a sqlplus shell script earlier in
>> the PATH than the Oracle sqlplus executable which does something like:
>>
>> cd some-directory
>> $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/bin/sqlplus
>>
>> So: to check this, you try the following:
>>
>> orapr1@r3prdci1> *which sqlplus*
>>
>> On most unixes *which* should tell you if you have a script in the way
>> (and where it is hiding).
>>
>> Otherwise, try
>>
>>   orapr1@r3prdci1> *pwd*
>>
>>  orapr1@r3prdci1> *sqlplus user/pass*
>> SQL>* !pwd*
>>
>> Are you in the same directory as before?
>>
>> Another way you could end up in a different directory is if your shell (eg
>> ksh) runs a login, .profile, or other startup file (like .bashrc) which
>> includes a *cd* command. Check *man ksh* for the files that are executed
>> when you launch a new shell.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Regards Nigel
>>
>>
>
>

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