Hi,

I have installed Oracle on my Mandrake 8.2 box. Part of the install requires me to setup some environment variables in either .login or .profile files. When I searched for these files with Konqueror it crashes. So i don't know where to find them, I had a look in what i thought were obvious places (home directory and sub directories) but no luck.

So the question is where can I set these envronment variables (e.g. ORACLE_HOME for the oracle user) so that they are set prior to the Oracle instance starting up?

Thanks

David

If you want to set the variables for a specific user, you can set them up in either .bash_profile or .bashrc in the user's home directory. If you want the environment variable to be set for all users when they login, you can set it up in /etc/profile

j.

The system default "profile" is /etc/profile.
Thse are called dot files "."extention to see them from the shell login in use
ls -la. Not all distro's create a .profile or .bash_profile in users home directory.

Any changes you want every user to have should be make in /etc/profile.
the genearl syntax is:

ENV_NAME=
export ENV_NAME

If you are new to Unix/Linux I would suggest that you read this Howto
before you go much furthure:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

As well as the howto and guides on:
http://ltdp.org

Ok, how do you place the commands you need into the .bashrc script? Just tac them on the end? Need specifics cause this is the newbie forum. Dont assume anything here.

I need to do the following. This is what I must type each time prior to launching a particular app. I'd like to have this done for me when I log on.

csh
cd /usr/xyz
source xyz_qrs

Any help would be great
Thanks