Hi, in my experience, the response file will only patch oracle homes that have services registered with the GI. So be careful if you patch before you create a DB (and thus, don't have a db service). Regards Martin Amaral, Rui schrieb: > I have been passing the gi one and that works for both gi and home... so far > at least ;-) > > Here's what I have been using for the July PSU : > > /u001/app/11.2.0/grid/OPatch/opatch auto > /u001/app/oracle/software/JulyPSU2013 -ocmrf > /u001/app/11.2.0/grid/OPatch/ocm/bin/ocm.rsp > > Rui Amaral > Senior Oracle DBA > -- Usn's IT Blog for Oracle and Linux http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l