/bin/bash not found

[Tonatiuh]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

I receive an error message when I switch to oracle user:

[root@monitor etc]# su - oracle
-bash: [/bin/bash: No such file or directory

This error message is present only when I add the following lines to the /etc/profile

if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then
if [$SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then
ulimit -p 16384
ulimit -n 65536
else
ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536
fi
fi

The "/bin/bash" file does exist.

If I delete the lines showed (from the /etc/profile the error messages does not appear anymore.

This lines was extracted from the oracle manual and never have had this problem.

Any idea?

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Is that a exact copy paste of the profile? Ensure that you have a space between the [ ] and the test, that is:

if[$USER="oracle"];then
if[$SHELL="/bin/ksh"];then

[Tonatiuh]

It is a "copy and paste" of the part I have added.

[Tonatiuh]

Problem solved. I omitted an space before the "$SHELL" variable.
THANK YOU!

[Sung Oh]

Hi Tonatiuh,

you should have /bin/bash shell for many scripts that are created by oracle.

you can run following command to check to see if you have bash shell installed on your system or not.
#rpm -qa --queryformat '%10{NAME} %20{GROUP}\n' | grep -i shells

also you can check to see if you have bach shell doc has been install on your system.
#rpm -qid bash

Regards,
Sung

[Jeroen Peereboom]

By the way, why do you modify the /etc/profile for this and not the ~oracle/.profile?
It seems like a modification only for the oracle user...

JP