Hi,
I tried to install the client part of Oracle 8.1.7 on RedHat 7.2 (also applied the glibc patch from Oracle) and untill then everything seemed fine.
Netassisant could not be started, but I copied a working tnsnames.ora and sqlplus.ora from another (w2k) client that could connect to the db server. The db is up and running fine.
More details: I used the IBM jre (jre118) to install and allready tried to change the TWO_TASK environmnent variable to the db instance name specified in tnsnames.ora. I also tried this in the PHP script by using putenv(). This is what it returns:
Warning: _oci_open_server: Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-12154.
It seems that the client cannot resolve to the db server. I cannot connect using SQL*plus, nor do a tnsping (which on a previous attempt I could... nothing done any different as far as I remember). Network settings are correct.
Is there a way to force the netasst to start (tried -nojit allready, doesn't help)? Or should it suffice to copy the .ora to network/admin?
I have no inspiration left .... please help.
thank you
jonas
