bash_profile question.

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Rohit khaladkar wrote:
> Hi All,I have RHEL 5.3 running on my system. I have
> a customized .bash_profile script in /home/oracle directory which sets
> ORACLE_HOME and other variables.
> When I login to the system as a Oracle user the .bash_profile script
> does initiate , but when I login as a root and do a "*su oracle*" , the
> .bash_profile does not run.
> 
> Any ideas what may be wrong, or what files I should be looking at..?
> 
No problem: su - oracle
If you add the dash, it then gets the user that you're su'ing to's environment;
if you don't, it doesn't.

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