Hello Experts-
If this is posted in the wrong 'space' please let me know where I should move it to.
I am trying to edit .profile for oracle user so that I can export ORACLE_SID,PATH & such so that I can run . oraenv after I get into the server as 'oracle' OS user.
I find this very odd & I would like some expert opinions as what is going on.
$ id
uid=109(oracle) gid=107(oinstall) groups=108(dba),109(asmoper),110(asmdba),111(asmadmin)
$ whoami
oracle
$ pwd
/home/oracle
$ ls -altr
total 96
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 96 Sep 14 2012 .sw
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 96 Sep 14 2012 oradiag_oracle
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 96 Sep 19 2012 .InstallAnywhere
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 1774 Sep 19 2012 .com.zerog.registry.xml
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 8192 Mar 25 2013 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 436 Jul 23 2014 .profile
drwx------ 2 oracle oinstall 96 Jun 17 15:39 .ssh
-rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 200 Jun 23 15:46 .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 8192 Jun 23 15:46 .
-rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 3376 Jun 23 15:54 .sh_history
$ cat /home/oracle/.profile
cat: Cannot open /home/oracle/.profile: No such file or directory
$ set
COLUMNS=200
DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
ERASE=^H
ERRNO=10
FCEDIT=/usr/bin/ed
HOME=/home/oracle
IFS='
'
LINENO=1
LINES=71
LOGNAME=oracle
MAIL=/var/mail/oracle
MAILCHECK=600
MANPATH=/usr/share/man/%L:/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man/%L:/usr/contrib/man:/usr/local/man/%L:/usr/local/man:/opt/VRTS/vxfs5.0/man:/opt/ipf/man:/opt/ldapux/share/man/%L:/opt/ldapux/share/man:/opt/ldapux/ypldapd/man:/opt/cifsclient/share/man:/opt/openssl/man:/opt/openssl/prngd/man:/opt/wbem/share/man/%L:/opt/wbem/share/man:/opt/graphics/common/man:/opt/hpvm/share/man/%L:/opt/amgr/man/%L:/opt/amgr/man:/opt/sec_mgmt/share/man:/opt/samba/man:/opt/samba/WTEC_Support_Tools/man:/opt/caliper/man/%L:/opt/caliper/man:/opt/drd/share/man/%L:/opt/drd/share/man:/opt/dsau/man:/opt/resmon/share/man/%L:/opt/resmon/share/man:/opt/guid/share/man:/opt/perf/man/%L:/opt/perf/man:/opt/hpvm/share/man:/usr/contrib/kwdb/share/man:/opt/VRTS/man:/opt/perl_32/man:/opt/perl_64/man:/opt/prm/man/%L:/opt/prm/man:/opt/propplus/share/man:/opt/psb/healthtest/share/man:/opt/sfm/share/man:/opt/swm/share/man/%L:/opt/swm/share/man:/opt/swa/share/man/%L:/opt/swa/share/man:/opt/ssh/share/man:/opt/sentinel/man/%L:/opt/sentinel/man:/opt/langtools/share/man/%L:/opt/langtools/share/man:/opt/wlm/share/man/%L:/opt/wlm/share/man:/opt/openssl/fips/0.9.7/man:/opt/openssl/fips/0.9.8/man:/opt/gwlm/man/%L:/opt/gwlm/man:/opt/icod/man/%L:/opt/icod/man:/opt/ignite/share/man/%L:/opt/ignite/share/man:/opt/iexpress/net-snmp/man:/opt/iexpress/net-snmp/blib:/opt/iexpress/sudo/man:/opt/iexpress/wget/man:/opt/iexpress/wput/man
OPTARG
OPTIND=1
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/contrib/Q4/bin:/opt/perl/bin:/opt/gvsd/bin:/opt/ipf/bin:/opt/guid/bin:/opt/nettladm/bin:/opt/fcms/bin:/opt/wbem/bin:/opt/wbem/sbin:/opt/sas/bin:/opt/graphics/common/bin:/opt/hpvm/bin:/opt/atok/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/contrib/bin/X11:/opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/bin:/opt/caliper/bin:/opt/drd/bin:/opt/dsau/bin:/opt/dsau/sbin:/opt/resmon/bin:/opt/firefox:/opt/perf/bin:/usr/contrib/kwdb/bin:/opt/perl_32/bin:/opt/perl_64/bin:/opt/prm/bin:/opt/propplus/bin:/opt/sfm/bin:/etc/cmcluster/scripts/tkit/vtn:/opt/swm/bin:/opt/sec_mgmt/spc/bin:/opt/ssh/bin:/opt/swa/bin:/opt/hpsmh/bin:/opt/thunderbird:/opt/sentinel/bin:/opt/langtools/bin:/opt/wlm/bin:/opt/gwlm/bin:/opt/ignite/bin
PPID=24373
PS1='$ '
PS2='> '
PS3='#? '
PS4='+ '
PWD=/home/oracle
RANDOM=21441
SECONDS=666
SFTP_PERMIT_CHMOD=1
SFTP_PERMIT_CHOWN=1
SFTP_UMASK=''
SHELL=/sbin/sh
SSH_CLIENT='<IP_Address> 63770 22'
SSH_CONNECTION=',<IP_Address> 63770 <IP_Address> 22'
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
TERM=xterm
TMOUT=0
TZ=MST7MDT
USER=oracle
_=/home/oracle/.profile
$
If I do a 'vi' it is opening as a NEW file. Could someone let me know what might be going on here.