Re: linux environment question

  • From: "Andrew Kerber" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:57:31 -0600

I would like to hear the answer to that one when you find it.  I did not
have the problem in Linux in Opensuse 10.2.  What distro did you use?

On Dec 20, 2007 8:37 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> all
>
> I'm betraying my ignorance here so be gentle. We configured an oracle
> account with an ORACLE_HOME environment variable ( in .bash_profile) of
>
> /path/to/oracle/home
>
> and also set the PATH as $ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH $ORACLE_SID was also set
> correctly.
>
> connecting to the running database gave 'initialisation or shutdown in
> progress'. If however we ran oraenv we were able to connect. On comparison
> we discovered that if we set ORACLE_HOME as
>
> /path/to/oracle/home/  (trailing /)
>
> then we could connect just fine. My question is why is the trailing slash
> apparently necessary?
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
>



-- 
Andrew W. Kerber

'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'

Other related posts: