Wanna see something interesting with opatch? *nix: perl -cw $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch.pl Windoze: perl -cw %ORACLE_HOME%\opatch\opatch.pl Anyone else have trouble with opatch and Perl 5.8.3? Windows 2003 Perl 5.8.3 Opatch 1.0....52 Opatch either exits with an error code that is a very long negative number, or just spits out its copyright information and quits. Interestingly, installing Perl 5.0.00503 in OH/Apache cures the problem, as the opatch.bat script will find it there and it runs happily. 5.8.3 seems to work fine on a Win2K box with the same version of opatch. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l