It is bug 3615505 but not fixed in 10.1.0.3 as I suggested but - ludicrously in my view - slated for 10.2. I bet if they were filling up syslog with archiving completed successfully messages there would be a patch by now. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l