hello Jim i did what you suggested. but after typing "emctl start dbconsole" all i get is a failed connection error message. what should i do next? i'm lost. thanks for your help. rgds, Joeffrey -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] The connection was refused when attemptingtocontacthostname:5500 On 7/8/05, Joeffrey Betita <jmbetita at infoplus.com.ph> wrote: > all i get after typing "emctl start dbconsole" command not found. thanks for > your help emctl probably isn't in your default path. If you installed oracle into /opt/ or wherever you'll have to modify your path accordingly. You can do this one user at a time by editing ~/.bash_profile or you can do this sytem-wide by making a file in /etc/profile.d/ called oracle.sh with the contents similar to below if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /path/to/oracle/install ; then PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/oracle/install/bin fi This will set oracle to the end of all future login paths, so you should not after logging out/back in, you should see no more command not found junk. -- Jim Perrin System Administrator Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos