> Karma is free and very good product for monitoring databases, written by th= > e now=20 > long gone and forgotten member of this list, Sean Hull. I haven't seen any = > posts=20 > by Sean Hull since before my last pet T-Rex died. I have a monitoring script which watches the list for mention of my name so I can track down the culprit and give them trouble. :-) Am still around, lurking mostly. Sean -- Sean Hull, Senior Consultant Heavyweight Internet Group Rockefeller Center, Box 5352 New York, NY 10185 http://www.iheavy.com voice: 646.827.9877x23 fax: 646.827.3434 Sean Hull, founder and senior consultant of Heavyweight Internet Group is the author of O'Reilly and Associates "Oracle and Open Source" bridging Open Source software and integration with the world's best performing database, Oracle. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l