About ur environment:

It should be declare in ur .profile or .login or .bash_profile files,
depend from shell that u use.
How list ur environment variables:
> env
and u can see print like this:
NLS_LANG=american_america.we8iso8859p1
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/oracle/lib:/opt/home/sgene/perl/dbd/DBD-Oracle-1.06/blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle:/dbi/DBI-1.15/blib/arch/auto/DBI
PERL_HOME=/opt/home/sgene/perl
ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/oracle/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/bin:/opt/oracle/lib:/opt/home/sgene/perl/dbd/DBD-Oracle-1.06/blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle:/dbi/DBI-1.15/blib/arch/auto/DBI:/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/bin
DISPLAY=:0.0
DBI_LIB=dbi/DBI-1.15/blib/arch/auto/DBI
TNS_ADMIN=/opt/oracle/network/admin
DBD_LIB=dbd/DBD-Oracle-1.06/blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle
..
ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/...
PATH=...:/opt/oracle/product/.../bin:...
CHECK :ORACLE_HOME, PATH ... other oracle variables

About error messages:
this messages may be if:
-- ORACLE_HOME=/opt/o... don't set correctly (not PATH=)
-- in $ORACLE_HOME/network/mesg u haven't *xx.msg files
where xx should be US for english language or another for language that set
in ur NLS_LANG= variable
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reset environment:
1 way :
logout
logon
2 way
su - oracle
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BEQ-LOCAL protocol this is especial oracle protocol between oracle
core software and client software on same box usually in nt(w2k) environment.








[Edited by Shestakov on 03-26-2002 at 06:11 PM]