you have to set the environment variable ORACLE_SID to your instancename

hth
Rüdiger J. Schulz

Mullen Robert schrieb:

>After install 10g in Linux RH 4, trying to create a database and go to
>sqlplus / as sysdba
>and getting a Ora-12162 TNS net service is incorrectly specified.
>
>Checked environment variable appear allset.
>
>Any ideas?
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