The proliferation of Oracle patchsets has me experimenting with multiple Oracle installations on the same Solaris server. I recently went through some weird problems in creating a database under this arrangement. It turns out that the environment variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH and UNIX_PATH were set but not set correctly. This got me thinking, do I even need to set these variables? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l