Re: oraenv description

Hi !

	If you call oraenv from .profile you have to
	call it like '. profile'.

	If calling from .login you have to
	call it like 'source /usr/bin/coraenv'.

	The reason is, that if variables definied in
	a script, are discarded at termination of that
	script.

	Regards

	Dante A. Notari-Locher

Andy Hardy wrote:
>

 [snip]
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm looking for a description of the unix utility 'oraenv'.
> >This is normally used to determine the right entry for the
> >environment variable 'ORACLE_SID'.
> >I discovered that the environment variables 'NLS_LANG' and
> >'LANG' aren't evaluated if 'oraenv' is called in '.profile'.
> >Can somebody tell me, more about this behavior.
> >I didn't find anything about it in the oracle documentation.
> >
> >thanks in advance
> >Joachim
> Joachim,
>

[snip] Received on Mon Sep 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT