What version of oracle? If you're on at least 10g, just do: set sqlprompt "_user'@'_connect_identifier> " ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dba DBA [oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:20 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: custom glogin and RAC I have used a glogin like the following for years. When I try to start svrctl with this, it looks for db name and username parameters and it fails to start. anyone know how to change this so I can make it work with RAC ? undefine usr db col usr new_value usr col db new_value db set termout off select lower(user) usr, substr(global_name, 1, instr(global_name, '.')-1) db from global_name / set termout on set sqlprompt '&&usr.@&&db.> ' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l