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Are you setting the ORACLE_SID variable before the PS1 variable? That is to say is it possible you're invoking an external environment file to set ORACLE_SID but are doing that AFTER you've already set PS1?
first thing i looked at. an external environment file called to set ORACLE_SID BEFORE setting PS1. The set of PS1 --- the very last statement in the .profile script. The odd thing is this matters is in AIX this works ok I think on Solaris as well.
And in the external environment file are you exporting the variable?
In the profile are you invoking with a dot (" . envfile")?
Also you say "profile". Are you running ksh on Linux. The default on most Linux systems is bash and that reads /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash_profile, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile rather than just /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile like ksh.
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