About listener mistake,please help me!!

Question

I installed oracle10g on RHEL4 successfuly(ship.db.lnx32.cpio).But I get errors when I execute lsnrctl:
[oracle@biodb1 product]$ lsnrctl
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on 09-MAR-2006 15:01:56
Copyright (c) 1991, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Message 850 not found; No message file for product=network, facility=NL
I checked the $ORACLE_HOME is alright,and the user's permission is enough.
I am not sure how to fix them,please help me,thank you!

Answer 1

Typing sqlplus and getting a response may simply mean that you have the PATH set up correctly.
The listener also needs to find things like the listener.ora file, and for that it wants to have the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID.
When I have problems, the first thing I do in RedHat or SuSE is:
set | grep -i ORA
and make sure I have reasonable entries for ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME and PATH
To set everything properly, I use Andreas' suggestion and enter
. oraenv ... to use the /usr/local/bin/oraenv routine (/user/local/bin is hardcoded in my PATH)
As a matter of fact, the .profile or .bash_profile for all the userids that are supposed to access or manage oracle have the lines
export ORACLE_SID=orcl # change orcl to the default SID you want to use
ORAENV_ASK=NO
. oraenv
ORAENV_ASK=
just to make sure the SID, HOME and PATH are set properly. You would be surprised how many problems this resolves.