i am doing ORACLE 10Gr2 clusterware software installation on CENTOS 4.5. The last step it ask me run "root.sh". I run root.sh on RAC1 server and NO error message. But I run "root.sh" on RAC2 server it show error messages on very end. The message is "Invalid node name "RAC1" entered in an input argument.". Does anyone know this message is OK or NOT? I list messages for you to reference. Thanks ======================== messages ======== # ./root.sh WARNING: directory '/home/app/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/home/app/oracle' is not owned by root Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured /etc/oracle does not exist. Creating it now. Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory Setting up NS directories Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully WARNING: directory '/home/app/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/home/app/oracle' is not owned by root clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 3 detected. clscfg: version 3 is 10G Release 2. assigning default hostname rac1 for node 1. assigning default hostname rac2 for node 2. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897. node <nodenumber>: <nodename> <private interconnect name> <hostname> node 1: rac1 int-rac1 rac1 node 2: rac2 int-rac2 rac2 clscfg: Arguments check out successfully. NO KEYS WERE WRITTEN. Supply -force parameter to override. -force is destructive and will destroy any previous cluster configuration. Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster has already been initialized Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds. Adding daemons to inittab Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds. CSS is active on these nodes. rac1 rac2 CSS is active on all nodes. Waiting for the Oracle CRSD and EVMD to start Waiting for the Oracle CRSD and EVMD to start Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M) Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps Invalid node name "RAC1" entered in an input argument. Invalid node name "RAC1" entered in an input argument. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l