Prem do not rush to change ID-s. One question here: Which user you are trying to use for startup DB? As far as I know, there are practise to use not ORACLE users for DB within eBS environments. I recall the files owner is dev.. user, from your prev. postings. Who is ownere of Oracle software? Can you try to startup db using dev.. user ? Jurijs +371 9268222 (+2 GMT) ============================================ Thank you for teaching me. http://otn.oracle.com/ocm/jvelikanovs.html On 10.08.2004 17:23:59 oracle-l-bounce wrote: >Thanks Mladen / Mark. >does it mean that root.sh has not been run ?! >if SET-UID is not set , oracle executable does >not have the permission to write to DBF files ( as >a metalink note says ) . > >But i wonder , how it was working so far ( almost >for 3-4 months ) . i face the problem since yesterday >only . couldn't get the reason why ? And why with >that one particular file ONLY ?!! > >Can someone enlighen me . > >Thanks and Regards, >Prem. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------