.profile setup

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Prashant:

You need to export the variables. For example:

# export ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/8.1.7

Regards!

...JRF...

[Indira Aramandla]

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

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

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.

[Geoff Wild]

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

. ./somepath/cron.profile

Rgds...Geoff

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

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

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Thanks