You home directory is the Location for .profile.

u have not set the Oracle_Sid env Var properly.

HTH

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-----Original Message-----
From: puru pradhan [mailto:[Email Address Removed] Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:11 PM
To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
Subject: unable to connect


Hi all

I am getting the following msg while trying:

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bash-2.03$ sqlplus internal

SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Wed Apr 30
01:09:50 2003

(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights
reserved.

ERROR:
ORA-24314: service handle not initialized

......
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ALso whai is the location for ".profile" file?


TIA



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