Commands and modules not found when starting Satellite services

Issue

• errors when trying to bring the satellite server online:

  # rhn-satellite start 
  Starting rhn-satellite... 
  Starting Jabber services                                   [  OK  ] 
  /etc/init.d/oracle: line 41: sqlplus: command not found 
  /etc/init.d/oracle: line 42: [: 10: unary operator expected 
  Starting Oracle Net Listener ...                           [  OK  ] 
  Starting Oracle DB instance "rhnsat" ...                   [  OK  ] 
  Starting osa-dispatcher: Unable to load module osa_dispatcher 
  No module named server 
                                                             [FAILED] 
  Starting tomcat5:                                          [  OK  ] 
  Starting httpd:                                            [FAILED] 
  Starting rhn-search... 
  Starting cobbler daemon:                                   [  OK  ] 
  Done. 
  

• also get errors when doing a satellite-sync:

  # satellite-sync  
  Unable to find synchronization tools. 
  Error: No module named server