oracle user 's profile does not gets read by oracle

[sharif naser_1]

Hello experts,

when oracle user logs on to the oracle server the variables inside the profile are defined but are not utilized let me say when i give
$svrmgrl i get /usr/bin/sh not found.
but when i log on as root & su - oracle everything is set & utilized.
i would be grateful if anyone could help me.

regrads,
S.N.

[Mark Greene_1]

check to see if the path is getting changed by any other script or process that oracle runs or is called by the .profile.

HTH
mark

[Steve Steel]

Hi

What do you call logging in.

If it is via CDE you need to tell the machine to use a login shell to read the profiles.


After login before anything else do
set
or
echo $PATH

And make sure the values are ok.

To get a CDE login shell.

In $HOME make .Xdefaults with read for all
and value

*loginShell: true


Steve Steel

[Printaporn_1]

if login with CDE
edit $HOME/.dtprofile
uncomment
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

it will read variable from $HOME/.profile

[Alex Glennie]

if within CDE I'd suggest trying this :

run ->dtterm -ls
since dtterm's don't source the users .profile by default ! see dtterm(1)

[Dragan Krnic_2]

It happens sometimes when you clone a .profile via FTP and forget to switch bin[ary] on on a system which defaults to ascii. Each line-feed gets complemented by a preceding carriage-return which is DOS-like but makes your interpreter (the command you put in the first line of your script after a leadin "#!") look like it were extended by an additional character 'carriage-return'. In your case the shell gets "/usr/bin/sh\r" instead of only "/usr/sbin/sh". Get rid of carriage-return characters by either executing "dos2ux" or by replacing "^M$" (meaning the character carriage-return at the end of the line) by "".

[oiram]

Hi,

Have you checked your TERM settings when you make su - all the variables are changed to the value they have in the .profile file except TERM variable. If you make su - from the root account you will have the same TERM as root. I don??t know any other significant difference between su - and login.

Best regards.