Hi Mark, Mark W. Farnham schrieb: > Have you recently switched to noarchivelog mode and possibly it is still > trying to archive logs that are at least partially from the period when you > were in archivelogmode? No, this system has never been in archive log mode. Thus, the archive log target does not exist, anyway. > This all seems a bit odd to me, but then I don't push hard on noarchivelog > mode. Yes, odd is the right word. I simply can't imagine why the ARCH process is running, anyway. Regards Martin -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l