EXP/IMP ignores arguments

I am running SuSE 7.0 with OracleEE 8.1.7. Everything works fine except for IMP/EXP. IMP/EXP both igore any command line agruments forcing me to go to interactive mode. Has anyone experienced this?

any argument (including name/password) used is ignored. It is only a problem with Linux. my parfile works fine on AIX.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by OlegI:
What arguments are ignored? If you are about AS SYSDBA, use '\sys/oracle as sysdba\'
Recently it was a bug and it is a feature now.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Default: none
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Edited by: user589812 on Nov 13, 2009 10:35 AM

JIm,
I also want to know can we add the exclude=tablespace on the impdp command for full database exp/imp?You can't use exclude=tablespace on exp/imp. It is for datapump expdp/impdp only.
I am very insteresting in your recommadition.
But for a full database impdp, how to exclude a table during full database imp? May I have a example for this case?
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. I drop database that gerenated a expdp dump file.
and recreate blank database and then impdp again.
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ORA-39151: Table "SYSMAN"."MGMT_ARU_OUI_COMPONENTS" exists. All dependent metadata and data will be skipped due to table_exists_action of skip
ORA-39151: Table "SYSMAN"."MGMT_BUG_ADVISORY" exists. All dependent metadata and data will be skipped due to table_exists_action of skip
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Hope this helps.
Dean

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Well it looks like I did it again!
Total brain fart.
The problem turned out that I wasn't specifying the entire SERVICE_NAME for the repository database. I had been leaving off the domain information. Must be a habit from not having to use it in the TNSNAMES.ORA files.
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