Editing the Oracle user profile
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Editing the Oracle user profile

Edit the Oracle user .profile file to set the paths to ORACLE_BASE, CRS_HOME, and ORACLE_HOME on each node.

In the following sample procedure, ksh is the shell environment and the Oracle user home directory is /home/oracle.

To edit the Oracle user profile

  1. As the Oracle user, set the proper environment variables on each node.

    $ export ORACLE_BASE=/app/oracle
$ export ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/orahome
$ export CRS_HOME=/app/crshome
$ export PATH=$PATH:$CRS_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME\
jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib
    $ export ORACLE_BASE=/app/oracle
$ export ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/orahome
$ export CRS_HOME=/app/crshome
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
$ export PATH=$PATH:$CRS_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/opt/VRTS/bin
$ export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME\
/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib

  2. Check whether the profile file contains commands, such as "stty erase" or other commands that modify the screen display.

    Note:

    The presence of output-producing commands in the profile file garble the screen display when the installer runs.

    If the file contains commands that display information on screen, wrap them in a conditional test loop as follows: 

    if test -t 1; then
  uname -a
  stty erase
  echo -uname -n
fi

  3. Verify the profile changes:

    $ . /home/oracle/.profile
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