Ignore that - my bad.. I used a hyphen in front of "-auto"... instead of throwing a comprehensible error, it complained about the user :( Have a nice day! Cheers, Tony On 3/02/12 12:35 PM, De DBA wrote: > Hi > > I'm stumped. Oracle tells me in the readme of BP14 (patch 13556724) to > run opatch auto<path_to_patch> *as root*. Opatch however exits with > > "The user is root. OPatch cannot continue if the user is root" > > Has anyone done this before? How can one apply this patch to the grid > home (which is owned by root) if opatch will not run under root? Google > doen't seem to know.. > > Exadata 11.2.2.4.2 > Opatch 11.2.0.1.9 > Oracle 11.2.0.2 > > Cheers, > Tony > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l