Hi Lukas, I don't have much in mine: define _EDITOR=vi I would be very wary of adding any SELECT stuff into glogin though. If the database isn't up when you start sql*plus, you get errors and it can lead to you not being able to use some utilities, such as DBUA. I posted this in a thread some time back - How To Inadvertently Screw Up DBUA - around June last year. It appeared that other people with other utilities, encountered similar problems. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l