Michael, Tell your sys adm to not put unsupported OS's on production, because if you ever need to open a TAR for a production problem, Oracle will tell you that your platform is unsupported, and then you both would have a problem. It's unsupported, and we have to live with this Oracle decision. alvaro >Any thoughts on this? Thanks Mike -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l