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This is almost guaranteed to be your problem. Bruce describes it well. It is largely an environment (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH ) issue combined with making sqlplus behave as you want.

jim mcnamara
– jim mcnamara

2015-01-13 20:47:07 +00:00
Commented Jan 13, 2015 at 20:47
Thanks Bruce, But my .profile indeed contains : PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH:/sbin:/opt/oracle/product/102010_cl_64/cl/bin:/opt/oracle/product/102010_cl_64/cl/lib:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/oracle/product/102010_cl_64/cl/bin export PATH and ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/102010_cl_64/cl export ORACLE_HOME but it is still not setting the variable value.

user3377923
– user3377923

2015-01-14 11:48:13 +00:00
Commented Jan 14, 2015 at 11:48
@user3377923 - your .profile may indeed contain that, but your script doesn't source .profile, it executes it. put ". " (dot space) in front of "~/.profile" to get ksh to source .profile rather than execute it.

user732
– user732

2015-01-14 14:52:58 +00:00
Commented Jan 14, 2015 at 14:52

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