Are you calling this from one of your run levels, ie rc3 etc. If so, what if you explicitly set your environment as opposed to sourcing it with a call to oraenv. Your environment may not be getting set in a lower run level by calling another script. Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rothouse Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:25 AM To: krish.hariharan@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L Subject: Re: Auto-start Oracle on reboot problem I login directly with the root account and manually run it. dbora file attached. On Jan 9, 2008 12:03 AM, <krish.hariharan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: One way to debug this is to add the line exec >/tmp/dbora_debug.log 2>&1 somewhere in the beginning of dbora to see what transpires during start up (BTW, the log file of shutdown will not persist since it is in /tmp). If not anything else it will at least tell if if this is being invoked during startup. You also mentioned that you ran is as root. Was this as (a) sudo (b) su (c) su - root If you could, please post the dbora here which may help -Krish