Re: sqlplus prompt question in 9i

I had same problem with 9i, what I did is at the begining of the dbstarup or stop script, I mv the glogin.sql to _old, at end of scripts I mv back to the original name.

Joan

Guang Mei wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> With Oracle 8i, I always modified $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin/glogin.sql, and
> added
>
> set termout off
> col site_name noprint new_value site_name_new
> select 'SQL> ' site_name from dual;
> select user
> || substr(proc.program, instr(proc.program,'@'),
> instr(proc.program,' ') - instr(proc.program,'@'))
> || '-SQL> ' site_name
> from v$process proc
> where proc.pid = 2;
> set sqlprompt '&&site_name_new'
> set termout on
>
> so that when a user launches sqlplus, it would show something at prompt like
>
> username_at_hostname-SQL>
>
> instead of
>
> SQL>
>
> I found that doing this in 9i will prevent me starting up my instance, when
> I use
>
> sqlplus '/as sysdba'
>
> In 8i, I always used svrmgrl to bounce db so there was no problem with
> modified glogin.sql.
>
> Has anyone found a work-around in 9i so that sqlplus prompt displays
> "username" and "hostname" when launched? I know there is a new
> _CONNECT_IDENTIFIER in 9i, but that's not good enough.
>
> TIA.
>
> Guang
>
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