How to reconfigure Oracle 10g xe on Linux

Remove /etc/sysconfig/oracle-xe
and then /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

Oracle creates a system account named oracle. To change password to that account just use

passwd oracle

if you forgot another password from DB then log in as oracle user and use

sqlplus / as sysdba

to change the password for various DB accounts.

To reconfigure change in /etc/default/oracle-xe

CONFIGURE_RUN=true

CONFIGURE_RUN=false

and rerun

sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

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