-ksh: .: line 85: JAVA_VENDOR: parameter not set

For Banner SSB domain configuration, we needed to perform below steps to start Admin Server:

export DOMAIN_HOME=/oracle/product/Middleware11g/user_projects/domains/SSB

. $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setDomainEnv.sh

nohup $DOMAIN_HOME/startWebLogic.sh >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

 

The second step from above setDomainEnv.sh was failing with below error:

$ . setDomainEnv.sh

-ksh: .: line 85: JAVA_VENDOR: parameter not set

So I changed to BASH and started weblogic Admin server:

$ bash

[oracle@**** bin]$ . setDomainEnv.sh

[oracle@**** SSB]$ echo $JAVA_VENDOR

Sun

On other server where we use ksh, we never had this issue. So I wondered why is it failing on this server.

Cause:

Looks like set –u is in effect for this server. This can be found using “echo $-“ command:

$ echo $-

imsuBEl

On other server where we don't see this error:

$ echo $-

imsBEl ==> Notice there is no "u"

Solution:

Oracle user's .profile had below:

# Set up the shell environment:
        set -u

1. Remove set -u line from .profile

2. Logout and login back