Bad Command Prompt (??)
 

Hello,

From the root user on my Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3 (ES) server, I type the following command to switch to the Oracle user:

su - oracle

I am switched to the Oracle user, but I also get the message:

.bash:... bad command

1) What exactly does this mean ?

The command seems to work regardless.

PT

it's probably because of the "-" in the command which should be simply "su oracle"

That's not a fix, that's a kludge, and a very
sad (bad) one, too ...

He must have something wrong in oracle's (the
user oracle) ~/.bash_profile or something ... not
using the real users environment is a bad idea
because chances that root doesn't export things
like ORACLE_HOME at all are quite high, and
that will break other things he will be trying to do
as that user ...


Cheers,
Tink

Kludge ??
 

Hello,

What is a Kludge ?

Do you suggest I remove the Oracle User and recreate a new Oracle User ?
What happens to all the things I did/installed as the Oracle User before ?

PT

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/kludge.html


And no, I don't suggest re-creating the user.

I suggest you look through the initiation files of
your shell, most likely ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile
for things that look fishy.



Cheers,
Tink