How to start RMAN in linux env?

Question

Hi Gurus,
I am new to RMAN and trying to start RMAN in linux as follows.
$rman
when i am giving rman command ,nothing is comming..the cursor is blinking.
How to resolve the same. I set the following env variable.
===========================
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_SID=test
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/dbs
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
===========================
and rman executable is available in $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/dbs/bin
$ ls -ltr rman*
-rwxr-x--x 1 oracle dba 10457622 Jul 12 2008 rmanO
-rwxr-x--x 1 oracle dba 10457622 Jul 12 2008 rman
$
Please suggest me how to resolve this problem.
Regards
Nagendra.

Answer 1

Nagendra2 wrote:
How to resolve the same. I set the following env variable.
===========================
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_SID=test
export ORACLE_HOME={color:#ff0000}$ORACLE_BASE/dbs{color}
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
===========================
I beleive your "ORACLE_HOME" is incorrect!
This may work better:
export ORACLE_SID=test
ORAENV_ASK=NO
. /usr/local/bin/oraenv
ORAENV_ASK=YES
The above will set your environment variables correctly.
:p