Oracle 9i Solaris 8. Thanks -Mamun -----Original Message----- From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 2:56 PM To: Rashid, Mohammad M, NTWOP Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Can't login to oracle other than SYSDBA OS Version? Platform? Oracle Version? etc. On 6/9/06, Rashid, Mohammad M, NTWOP < mmrashid@xxxxxxx <mailto:mmrashid@xxxxxxx> > wrote: Folks: My apologies if this is a dumb question. I have only been a DBA for 8 months. We have a huge database (400 GB or so). Once a month , we do a cold backup that takes 18 hours (slow tape drives...) Anyway, after each cold backup , we have following problem: -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist