Answer:

You need to initialise the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Oracle User's session
Login file  like this

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

This will solve the problem..

-Thiru

"Chad D. Wessel" wrote:

> i successfully installed Oracle 8.0.5 on red hat 5.2 (well, almost)  =)
>
> all is working except for one glitch...
>
> despite setting the environmental variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly,
> sqlplus, svrmgrl, etc. fail to load under user 'oracle.'  all other db users
> can load these apps fine, but when i echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the 'oracle'
> user, i get nothing and when i call sqlplus or svrmgrl, i get the the
> following error message:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> svrmgrl: error in loading shared libraries
> libcIntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared object files: No such file or directory
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> this is strange becuase, like i said, it works fine for other users. <?>
>
> has anyone encountered this or has any idea how to remedy it?  thanks in
> advance!
>
> cheers,
> chad
>
> (please remove NOSPAM from email address before replying)
>
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> Chad D. Wessel
> Drexel University IST
> [email protected]
> http://chad.wessel.com/