commands in .profile are not getting executed.

[potuvasu]

Hi All,

I have just installed oracle 11g on sun solaris machine. I have a command in my .profile as

export ORACLE_HOME=/export/home/oracle11/11.1.0.6

after i login to the machine, when i type echo $ORACLE_HOME it is not showing up anything. But when i execute the same command from the command prompt and after that if i give echo $ORACLE_hOME, it is showing up the value.

Can any body guide me how to get this .profile work?

vasu

 

[KenCunningham]

Is this in the oracle user's home directory, and which shell is used by the oracle user?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[potuvasu]

thanks for the reply kencunningham.
Yes, I am using oracle user home directory.

after i enter to my home directory, if i try to give export command, it is saying command not found. if i enter sh, then the prompt is shwoing bash. It means this may be using bash shell. at this point if i give export command, it is executing that command properly.

thanks,
Vasu.

 

[Annihilannic]

Just after you log in, what is the output of:

[tt]ps -fp $$[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

What is the entry for the oracle user in /etc/passwd?

I want to be good, is that not enough?