OEL 4 on VMware Player on XP Pro
I've installed OEL 4 on a VMware Player machine. (Also installed Oracle 10.2.0.4 with latest CPU and created a db. All that is working as expected)
BUt I'm seeing what appears to be strange behavior concerning sourcing the .bash_profile.
First I fire up the VM and log on as user 'oracle' which takes me to a gnome desktop but because I'm a command line type of guy, I open a terminal:
First, here's my .bash_profile:
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ clear
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ pwd
/home/oracle
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ cat .bash_profile
# .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
# added by Ed Stevens
set -o vi
export ORACLE_SID=vmora1
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
alias bdump='cd $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/bdump; pwd; ls -ltr'
alias oranet='cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin; pwd; ls -l'
alias oadmin='cd $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID; pwd; ls -ltr'
so, let's check one of the env vars I set:
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ echo $ORACLE_SID
vmora1
Good enough. Let's check my aliases:
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ alias
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'
alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
Huh? Where's the ones I set in my profile: bdump, oranet, and oadmin?
But if I now source the profile, I get the aliases:
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ . ./.bash_profile
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$ alias
alias bdump='cd $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/bdump; pwd; ls -ltr'
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'
alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
alias oadmin='cd $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID; pwd; ls -ltr'
alias oranet='cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin; pwd; ls -l'
alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
[oracle@vmsvr01 ~]$
So why, on initial entry, I get the env vars that are defined only in .bash_profile, but I don't get the aliases defined there until I specifically source the profile?