topic Re: .profile setup in Operating System - HP-UX

.profile setup

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:57:21 GMT

Hi,
I have a problem ..

- .profile calls a file called cron.profile and sets up ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME.
While I have put echo $ORACLE_SID & echo $ORACLE_HOME at the end of ecript cron.profile, which shows me proper as I turned on set -vx in the script.

But when script finishes executing and I get the shell back, I do not see this variables set..
Any clue on this?

Appreciate responses in advance

Re: .profile setup

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:04:34 GMT

Hi Prashant:

You need to export the variables. For example:

# export ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/8.1.7

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: .profile setup

Indira Aramandla — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:36:30 GMT

Hi Prashant,

Yes you will need to export the variable after assigning the path.

export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/92

export ORACLE_SID=

IA

Re: .profile setup

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:42:58 GMT

It's exported, but what I am thinking is, script which is called in .profile is not returning variable to .profile which is parent shell..which is a normal behaviour of Unix.. sounds ok ?

Prashant

Re: .profile setup

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:05:02 GMT

You can't use a .profile like this because you are calling it as a child process. You need to source the .profile via the shell's . operator.

e.g.
~/.profile is very different from
. ~/.profile

You want the .profile to become part of the foreground process rather than simply a child process because one of the the fundamental tenets of UNIX is that a child cannot alter the environment of its parent.

Re: .profile setup

Geoff Wild — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:22:49 GMT

Don't call a script (as Clay says) - source the cron.profile file instead...

. ./somepath/cron.profile

Rgds...Geoff

Re: .profile setup

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:27:45 GMT

Thanks guys for responses .. Last two responses are answers for my question..I appreciate it..

Re: .profile setup

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:30:46 GMT

Thanks