Niall, I think you are right. When I launch rman it hangs. I went to the OH/bin and tried to launch it, it still hung. When I did 'which rman' I get this: [oracle@server]$ which rman /usr/X11R6/bin/rman So I checked that directory, everything is owned by root: [oracle@server]$ pwd /usr/X11R6/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 11 2010 gccmakedep -> archexec lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 11 2010 xft-config -> archexec lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 11 2010 xsetbg -> xloadimage ..... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4890 May 7 2007 xscreensaver-getimage-video -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179032 Oct 11 2006 xloadimage New product with different configurations. I have not heard of 'X11R6/bin' directory for bin files. This application installed oracle in its own way. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ram > > I imagine from the name and reference to Web Centre that the product > is Secure Enterprise Search (I hope it works better than searching > oracle.com or metalink but I digress). The Oracle database supplied > as a part of that product is intended to be backed up using old > fashioned cold o/s level backups along with core metadata that resides > outside the database - See for example > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21698_01/admin.1122/e21605/tuning002.htm > . I'd hope that if the dbas are to be responsible for managing a new > application such as this a little bit of application specific training > might be made available. The Web Centre docs are available at > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/webcenter.htm for > reference and include SES documentation. > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l