topic Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot find Oracle .login script

Robin Geary — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:51:08 GMT

Hi

I am having trouble finding the start up shell script for the oracle user. I can login as the user but cannot find the .login anywhere.

Thanks in advance for any help.

HP-UX 11.11
Oracle 10g release 2

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:54:14 GMT

You can create a .login file. It is not a default file. Create and maintain with oracle:oracle group permission with 644.

$ touch .login
$ chmod 644 .login

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Muthu

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:55:17 GMT

Shalom Robin,

You have to build the file yourself.

I recommend against using c shell for oracle user. You are better off with posix or korn shell, which use .profile

SEP

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:59:02 GMT

Hi Robin,

You can create your own .login for Oracle user.

-Arun

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Robin Geary — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:01:49 GMT

Thanks,

I shall create my own .profile for the Oracle user.

May I be cheeky and ask where I will put the file?

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:03:53 GMT

Hi Robin,

Usually, .login file will be under $HOME
For Oracle, It should be under home directory of oracle user.

-Arun

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:06:44 GMT

Login related files have to be put under the user's $HOME directory.

$ touch $HOME/.login

Generally, /home/oracle then /home/oracle/.login is correct location. See csh man page more.

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Muthu

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

john korterman — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:07:04 GMT

Hi,

check first how the startup shell of the oracle user is defined in /etc/passwd

# grep oracle /etc/passwd

If the last field ends in "csh" the startup shell is of type "c" and it will make use of .login
If the last field ends in "sh" or "ksh", .login is ignored and .profile used instead.

regards,
John K.

Re: Cannot find Oracle .login script

Robin Geary — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:31:17 GMT

Thanks for all the help,

It turned out that the home directory for the oracle user wes /u/oracle, so i dumped in a default .profile file, as it was ksh in the passwd file, and now I can continue working.