Dick, Raw devices are in the domain of root, and its not likely to be moved into (unvprivileged) user-space anytime soon. Paul On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:39:29 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul, > Thanks for the information. What would be the great > frustration, to me & I'm not currently using 10G, is that Oracle has > these "root" daemons that they spawn in this way. If it's an Oracle > needed process it should be controlled from the dbstart script, not an > inittab entry. > Dick Goulet -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l