> I did build it with Solaris Studio but for one architecture. I think it > was V440. Then it failed to run our T2000 and T5120 boxes. > Have you thought about simply installing the Oracle Grid Control Agent in it's own ORACLE_HOME on the box? It includes a build of Perl (Oracle 10.2 has Perl v5.8.3) that has DBD::Oracle and a bunch of other fun modules. Here's some "use" statements I have in my Perl programs that use the Perl included with the Grid Control Agent install: use File::Find; use File::Basename; use POSIX qw(strftime tmpnam); use Fcntl qw(:flock SEEK_CUR); use IO::File; use Text::ParseWords; use Net::SMTP; use DBI qw(:sql_types); HTH! GL! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l