On Tue, May 11, 2010 17:10, japplewhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Tony, > > Hmmm, haven't even bothered to look at how 11g installs yet - waiting for > another release or two of 11gR2 before we "extreme trailing edge" give it > a go. You're in for a treat.. > I'm ornery enough to take it on as a challenge. If I can't get the 11g > install to do what I want, I'll just thwart it's evil intent with symlinks > - love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. "Age and treachery will always prevail > over youth and enthusiasm." :^) Symlinks are an answer, however, you do know that logs are now in the diagnostic area, and are XML? You do still get plain text logfiles, but I believe they are deprecated, you'll need to use adrci to look at diagnostic log files now (or EM console). I did have the same reaction as you, but my tiime was limited, and I bowed to the inevitable and used the Installer defaults, change at your peril, you have been warned. Age, well I have lots of that, I'm probably a DBA version 0.00001. -- Tony -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l