Hi Stephen, >It is possible in your broken case that oracle was started by >somebody in >dba group, but not actually oracle; and your dba group probably does >not have >write permission on the files. in my case ORACLE executable is owned by DEVDB01:DBA and started by the same user . it was working fine for these many days. perhaps the SUID has been changed by someone else recently. not sure of it though :| hi Velikanovs, >Prem do not rush to change ID-s. >One question here: Which user you are trying to use for startup DB? >As far as I know, there are practise to use not ORACLE users for DB >within >eBS environments. >I recall the files owner is dev.. user, from your prev. postings. >Who is ownere of Oracle software? >Can you try to startup db using dev.. user ? i did not change the SUID explicitly :( Thanks for your support guys.i will watch hereafter. Regards, Prem. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------