-bash: sqlplus: command not found / Oracle file permissons

Question

Hi,
I am running Oracle EE 10.2.0.1.0, on a RHEL 4-U2 server.
When I try to use sqlplus from a non dba account I get the following error:
[pemarten@orclserv ~]$ sqlplus pemarten/mypassword
-bash: sqlplus: command not foundAll my environment variables are set and $ORACLE_HOME/bin has been added to the PATH.
The problem seems to be that the file permissions of the oracle flexible architecture are wrong:
[oracle@orclserv 10.2.0]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0
[oracle@orclserv 10.2.0]$ ls -l
totaal 8
drwx--x---  56 oracle oinstall 4096 dec 12 14:15 db_1
drwxr-x---  46 oracle oinstall 4096 dec 12 14:14 htmldbThe permission of the db_1 directory is to strict (should be at least chmod 711 I think)
On my other test server (DB version 10.1) the permissions are:
[oracle@locserv 10.1.0]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0
[oracle@locserv 10.1.0]$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  53 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 12 02:54 db1So I have tried to chmod the directories to at least 711 up to the sqlplus binary, but when I try to execute sqlplus after that I get the following error:
[pemarten@orclserv ~]$ sqlplus pemarten/mypassword
sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorySo this doesn't seem to be an option. My biggest concern is why are the file permissons wrong after installation?
Before installing the oracle software umask 022 was added to the .bash_profile of the oracle user (used to install the software)
Has anyone experienced similar problems?
Does anyone knows how to solve this?
Thank You.
Pieter

Answer 1

Ivan,
Thanks for your reply.
I have changed the file permissions of +- 5 files in the lib directory, every time that I changed the permission of 1 file, I got an error for another one.
Now I am getting the following error
[pemarten@orclserv ~]$ sqlplus pemarten/mypassword
SP2-1503: Unable to initialize Oracle call interface
SP2-0152: ORACLE may not be functioning properlyAccording to oerr there are still lib files with wrong permissions...
What I would like to know is :
1) Are the file permissions changed in 10.2 (only DBA's can use sqlplus on the database server) ? If not I probably did something wrong and I will do a reinstall
2) Can anyone who has version 10.2 installed post an ls -l of his $ORACLE_HOME directory please, so I can compare the file permissions ?
Thank You,
Pieter