topic Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus in Operating System - HP-UX

root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

Scott E Smith — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:23:39 GMT

We are trying to run an sql query as root to get the number of current sessions on the database. Normally we run this as oracle but now we need it as root for monitoring. I seem to be having environment issues as the commands do not work....
su oracle -c /../../..sqlplus sess.sql ....
I get sqlplus not found even after setting path etc.....

PATH=$PATH;/opt/oracle/8.1.7/bin/;.
ORACLE_SID=$1
ORACLE_SCRIPT=/opt/oracle/admin/script
ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/8.1.7
export ORACLE_SID
export ORACLE_HOME
export SESSLOC=/opt/oracle/admin/script/sess.sql
export SQL=/opt/oracle/admin/script/sqlplus.sh

SES=`su oracle "$SQL system $SESSLOC |grep rows |cut -d " " -f 1"`

echo "The number of active sessions is $SES"
Any ideas? Thanks.

Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:28:52 GMT

As Oracle, do "env |grep -i oracle" and compare this against the same output when logged in as root. There's got to be something missing from root's env.

Pete

Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

Volker Borowski — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:29:49 GMT

Try "su - oracle ....."

the "-" tells su to execute the login environment.

This helps (no hope needed !)
Volker

Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

prasad_15 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:03:53 GMT

LD_LIBRARY_PATH ??

Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:15:54 GMT

You do not want to use su - oracle to read Oracle's .profile unless you surround all the interactive commands like tset, stty, and tabs with
if [[ -t 0 ]]
then
...
...
fi

The better way is to create a file (e.g. /usr/local/bin/oraenv.sh) and let your script and oracle's .profile source it via
. /usr/local/bin/oraenv.sh

This will insure that both your scripts and oracle's .profile will use exactly the same environment. NOTE: This sources file must not contain an exit or return statement.

Your specific problem is that you used semicolons rather than colons in the construction of your PATH.

Re: root, oracle,rdbms and sqlplus

twang — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:16:02 GMT

I extracted some code from our auto-shutdown
oracle database script:

if [ "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]
then
echo "User root shells to oracle"
/usr/bin/su - oracle -c "/usr/contrib/bin/shut.oracle"
exit 1
fi