LD_LIBRQARY_PATH = Yes UNIX_PATH=No I guess you mean PATH instead of UNIX_PATH /karsten -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DENNIS WILLIAMS Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:41 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: UNIX_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l