Hello All, I am having a problem setting ORACLE_SID using env variables. For example, in a bash script: export SS_DB=ABCDB export TT_DB=DEFDB export ORACLE_SID=$SS_DB sqlplus fails with Oracle not available, no shared memory. However, echo $ORACLE_SID returns ABCDB. If I then set ORACLE_SID directly: export ORACLE_SID=ABCDB sqlplus works fine What am I missing? TIA Dave -- Dave Morgan Senior Consultant, 1001111 Alberta Limited dave.morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx 403 399 2442 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l