Hello...

I was wondering can anyone explain me how to set up enviroment variable to be permanent...

I tryed with setenv but my solaris does not have this command...

then I did:

export ORACLE_SID=base1
export ORACLE_BASE=/home
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/oracle/8.1.6

and by doing this I can start my sqlplus...but as soon as I break telnet connection to my solaris..and start it over again...I am losing these variables..

I have to set them again and sqlplus works..

can U help me with this..

Put them into .profile of your home directory!!

The reason you don't have setenv is because that's a function of the csh environment and you're probably using ksh or bash (you can find out by typing "echo $SHELL").

The above will solve your problem.

Check which shell you are using by echo $SHELL as described above. If you are using bash, you will need to place them in your .bashrc file. If sh or ksh, then your .profile as described above. If you are using csh or tcsh, you will need to edit your .login file. But from the output above, I don't think you are using csh or tcsh.

Hi,

I too am facing this problem of setting the environment variables permanently. i'm using sh as my shell and I looked for .profile directory in my root filesystem but did not see any directory named like that. What directory am I supposed to be looking at ???

Thanks
rohit

.profile is a file in the home directory of the user. If it does not exist you can simply crete it. However .profile is used only by bourne derivative shells so it you are using csh/tcsh then you should use .cshrc.