Hello all, Some of the older list members may remember me; I've been more or less away from Oracle for a few years but we still have a few old 9i systems I still maintain on a sporadic basis. Anyway, one of our few remaining Oracle customers recently requested that we bounce the Oracle instance they were on; they said there was a bug in 9i that required the instance be bounced at least every 365 days. Does anyone know anything about this? I haven't been able to find out anything about it; my Metalink account expired a long time ago and Googling hasn't turned up anything. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Walt Weaver, old Oracle fart (it's my 60th birthday today) -- Bozeman, Montana