Hi all I created a new db with dbca (RH4 64bit oracle 10.2.0.3) and named it stage_ms, but when checking the installationsscripts generated where was a file called stagems.sh containing: #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/adump mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/bdump mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/cdump mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/dpdump mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/pfile mkdir -p /opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/udump mkdir -p /opt/oracle/flash_recovery_area mkdir -p /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/cfgtoollogs/dbca/stage_ms mkdir -p /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/dbs mkdir -p /oradata1/stage_ms ORACLE_SID=stagems; export ORACLE_SID echo You should Add this entry in the /etc/oratab: stagems:/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0:Y /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/sqlplus /nolog @/opt/oracle/admin/stage_ms/scripts/stagems.sql creating the directories was made correctly but the SID gets stagems. This wouldn't had been any problem but since I already had a db named that it became problems... Anyone seen this before? Is there a known problem with underscore in db name I am not aware of? /Johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l