hello jim this bash_profile is for the oracle user. yes the oracle has a valid shell. thanks for your help. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: The connection wasrefusedwhenattemptingtocontacthostname:5500 On 7/20/05, Joeffrey Betita <jmbetita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello bryan below is the configuration of bash_profile. iptables is disable. > also the instruction of john smiley is the one that i followed. when i > installed oracle 10G. > > # .bash_profile > > # Get the aliases and functions > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > . ~/.bashrc > fi > > # User specific environment and startup programs > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin > > export PATH > unset USERNAME > ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE > ORACLE_SID=demo1; export ORACLE_SID > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL > Is this the bash file for YOUR user, or for the oracle user? Does the oracle user have a valid shell. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos