> That sounds interesting, but from what I can see SRVM_TRACE appears to be a > cluvfy-specific setting. Does it work for OUI as well? I find that SRVM_TRACE appears in these scripts cluutil cluvfy gsdctl srvctl vipca under $CRS_HOME, and these gsdctl netca netca.ouibak srvconfig srvctl under DB's and ASM's $ORACLE_HOME. Note the odd behavior of this variable due to its usage in those scripts, which is always if [ "X$SRVM_TRACE" != "X" ] So you can set it to any character or string to enable tracing: $ srvctl -h Usage: srvctl [-V] ... $ SRVM_TRACE=false srvctl -h /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/jdk/jre/bin/java -classpath /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2 ... ... That is, even if you set it to a string "false", it *enables" tracing. If you use export or setenv to set it, make sure to unset or unsetenv, or at least set it to a null string, to disable tracing, not by setting it to "false". Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l