Martin, Unfortunately not at this point. Good luck. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Klier [mailto:usn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:57 AM To: William Wagman; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Archiver error without archive log mode Hi William, thanks for your reply. William Wagman schrieb: > Is it possible log_archive_start is set to true? I believe that will start > the archiver process even if the database is in noarchivelog mode. This was something I did not check, but I did it now :) Unfortunately it's set to FALSE, but it was a good idea. Any further clues, anyone? Thanks Martin -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de ��i��0���zX���+��n��{�+i�^