Hi John, On 07/03/2012 08:25, John Hallas wrote: > 11.2.0.1 > id oracle > uid=500(oracle) gid=504(oinstall) > id grid > uid=591(grid) gid=504(oinstall) > > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 1024 Jan 31 10:56 alert > drwxr-x--- 3 oracle asmadmin 1024 Mar 2 00:16 cdump > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 96 Feb 14 2011 hm > drwxr-x--- 201 oracle asmadmin 6144 Feb 22 22:15 incident > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 96 Feb 14 2011 incpkg > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 96 Nov 18 12:57 ir > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 2048 Feb 22 22:16 lck > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 2048 Feb 14 2011 metadata > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 13312 Feb 22 22:16 stage > drwxr-x--- 2 oracle asmadmin 1024 Feb 22 22:16 sweep > drwxr-xr-x 10 oracle asmadmin 248832 Mar 7 06:54 trace thank you for sharing this information! It seems that asmadmin is the correct group ... > We do not seem to have any problems with the 10g Grid agents Could you please check if there are errors related to the database alert log (grep -i error emagent_perl.trc) in the emagent_perl.trc file in <agent_home>/<deployment>/sysman/logs (if such file exists of course, I don't have any experience with GC 10g)? > > We did have to make changes re the permissions of tnsnames.ora in o0ut > TNS_ADMIN directory > > /app/gridsoft/11.2.0.1/network/admin $ls -l > total 14 > -rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall 434 Feb 14 2011 listener.ora > -rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall 368 Feb 14 2011 > listener.ora.bak.tshvm03 > drwxr-xr-x 2 grid oinstall 96 Feb 14 2011 samples > -rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall 187 May 7 2007 shrept.lst > -rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall 200 Feb 14 2011 sqlnet.ora > -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2394 Feb 7 16:26 tnsnames.ora > Thanks! Best regards Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l