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Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Jai Harikrishnan — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:39:20 GMT

Hi All,

During the course of Oracle Installation, one of the installation file had the following problem.

Results of execution of some of the lines from the file:

$ TOPLEVEL_COMPONENT = "oracle.server","8.1.7.0.0"}
(Executed Okay)
$ DEPENDENCY_LIST={ "oracle.rdbms","8.1.7.0.0", "oracle.options","8.1.7.0.0"}
sh: oracle.rdbms,8.1.7.0.0,: not found.
(Error)
$ DEPENDENCY_LIST={ "oracle.rdbms","8.1.7.0.0"}

sh: oracle.rdbms,8.1.7.0.0}: not found.
(Gave only two parameters for the env variable, but still error. Compare to the first one. I am stumped. )

Please Help!

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Dave La Mar — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:00:09 GMT

Jai -
Have you tried explicitly noting the full path to oracle?

Hang in there.
dl

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Jai Harikrishnan — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:10:15 GMT

Hi Dave,

How find the full path to Oracle
Here is the file attachment for reference.

Thanks a lot for responding!

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Dave La Mar — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:01:25 GMT

Jai -
Not real clear on what you are doing but ....
Our guys install using the oracle
login user i.d.
The environment variables are in set in the profile for oracle user.
Other than that, they simply run the installler program.

Best of luck.

dl

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Dave La Mar — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:16:43 GMT

Jai -
On another note, it may be that the { } are cuasing you a headache with multiple vairable values separated by commas.

Try /"xxxx/",/"yyyyy/"

Or, if you need the curly braces, escape out those characters.

dl

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Wodisch — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:00:14 GMT

Hi Jai,

don't know what you do there, but it's definitely NOT Bourne/Korn-/POSIX-shell syntax!
Syntactically what you do is:
VAR=value

Where "value" is a string, quoted if containing space(s), but must not have spaces around the assignment operator (=).
So your first example has a value of
oracle.server,8.1.7.0.0}

The second DOES have a space outside quotes, so it complains.

The third does have a space following the curly brace, so it's another shell-feature:
VAR=value command
where that variable (VAR) is set ONLY for for the environment of the command (and its value is "{", but the command is
oracle.rdbms,8.1.7.0.0}

which does NOT exist as a codefile on your system, of course.
Having installed literally dozens (more like hundreds) of Oracle8.1.7 servers, I have never encountered that problem, so you did something "different" from the usual install, I suspect...

What do you intent, any way?
What file are you talking about?
What environment variable have you set in the session where you try that installation?

Regards,
Wodisch

Re: Passing Multiple parameters to set a Oracle Environment Variable

Jai Harikrishnan — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:12:05 GMT

Gurus,

Due to space restrictions, I was installing Oracle directly from the disk, and the Oracle installer was hanging at this file, not able to execute.

I just ran this file directly from the Unix command prompt as the installer was prompting to check the file. Nevertheless, when I tried installing Oracle from a staging area, this problem did not repeat.

I guess, this is an Oracle Bug, if installed directly from the CD.

Thanks Again!