Re: [Q] How does UNIX know where $ORACLE_HOME is?

Hi

The ORACLE_HOME directory is specified as an enviroment variable in a shell file.
I presume that your are log in as the Oracle user an not someone else? Every user has it's own .profile. Maybe you are looking in the wrong .profile.

Or maybe the .profile calls a shell file where it is all set. On our Unix server the .profile calls a enviroment shell file where all enviroment variables is set. Also ORACLE_HOME.

Shell files has the extension .sh. Try to look for a file whit the extension <.sh> Or maybe you can sceach for the file whit the extension *.sh if you can't see it in your .profile.

Hope this can help you.
Henrik
Denmark

JOC <oconnorj_at_freenet.co.uk> wrote in message news:385e148c.8347087_at_NEWS...
> Hi,
>
> This came up at work today and is pure curiosity. We all use
> $ORACLE_HOME (HP-UX server), but we don't have it in our .profiles.
> I've looked it up in the handbook, and it seems to be a mixture of
> /etc/oratab and the listener, but I still can't work out how the OS
> knows where ORACLE_HOME is.
>
> Please help - it's going to niggle me until I find out.
>
> Yours in anticipation
>
> Jo
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 20 1999 - 06:39:19 CST