Installing Oracle on Linux

Hello,
  a "little" problem during installing Oracle 8.1.7 on Linux. I was installing 817 and I didn't let the installer create database. So, I'd let dbassist create scripts and I'm trying run it. When I start svrmgrl, I get ORA-12545: TNS:name lookup failure  error
=> I cannot "connect internal" to create database.

Tnsnames.ora and listener.ora are all right.

Have I missed something?

Thanks
JP

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