You need to be running this from a client with an X server, such as Exceed. After doing so, you can use the following command to set your DISPLAY variable, which is nothing more than an IP to send the display to: export DISPLAY=<your client IP>:0.0 Some shells don't like the above command and it must be separated: DISPLAY=<your client IP>:0.0 export DISPLAY where <your client IP> is the address of your machine, not the server. --- hamid alavi <alavihamid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > List, > > I try to run unInstall to uninstall oracle 8.1.7 from a unix box but I get > the following error message: DISPLAY can not be find. > If any body can give me some pratical idean relly appreciate. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Hamid Alavi > (C) 818-416-5095 > (F) 206-338-2375 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l