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Environment Variables

This appendix lists the ORACLE, Progress, and system environment variables that affect building and running the DataServer for ORACLE. See the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows or the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for UNIX for more information on Progress environment variables.

Table C–1 lists the environment variables and describes how to set them.

Table C–1: Environment Variables
Variable
How to Set It
DLC
The pathname of the directory where you installed Progress.
DLCLOAD
Before running PROBUILD, set DLCLOAD to $DLC/probuild.
DSLOGDIR
The pathname of the log file that Progress uses to keep track of DataServer processes and error messages.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(Sun Solaris)
or
LIBPATH (AIX)
or
SHLIB_PATH (HP-UX)
The identifier of the shared ORACLE libraries. On your UNIX system, if the SETUID bit is on, make sure there is a soft link from /usr/lib pointing to the ORACLE shared libraries. You must set this environment variable to include $ORACLE_HOME/lib when you run executables (whether supplied or built with PROBUILD) that you built with PROBUILD to access ORACLE 7.3 or ORACLE8.
Note that ORACLE does not support shared objects on all UNIX platforms. See your ORACLE documentation for more information.
ORACLE_HOME
The pathname of the directory where you installed ORACLE.
ORACLE_SID
The identifier for the ORACLE instance you are accessing.
ORASRV
The pathname to the executable of the ORACLE DataServer. Set it to the DataServer executable you want to run: dlc\bin\_orasrv (on NT), $DLC/bin/_orasrv or one you created with PROBUILD.
ORAVERSION
The version of ORACLE you are accessing (7 or 8, 7 is the default). Set this environment variable when you are upgrading a DataServer application to ORACLE8.
PROBRKR
The pathname to the executable of the broker.
PROEXE
The pathname of the Progress client executable. After setting this variable, you can run a customized executable (by default, _progres) by entering pro at the system prompt.
TNS_ADMIN
The pathname of the directory where listener.ora and tnsnames.ora SQL*Net configuration files are found for the server. Or for the client, where the tsnames.ora file is found.

NOTE: If you change the value of an environment variable during a session, you might have to shut down the DataServer processes and restart them before the new value takes effect.


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