Darn. I had exactly the issue as you described, and it was the sticky bit setting. What about the privs on lib, lib32, oracore, mesg, and sqlplus directories? It might be sqlplus/mesg or something like that. I had the issue getting bmc patrol to run properly, and spent literally hours figuring out the protections. -----Original Message----- From: John Hallas [mailto:john.hallas@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:18 AM To: Kerber, Andrew W.; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: adapters showing no protocols enabled Andrew, on a server that works (adapters = TCP, BEQ,IPC etc) and on one that it doesn't they are both set the same -rwsr-s-x (read missing of world) ________________________________ From: Kerber, Andrew W. [mailto:Andrew.Kerber@xxxxxxx] Sent: 08 November 2007 17:09 To: John Hallas; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: adapters showing no protocols enabled Check the sticky bit on the oracle executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin Should look like this: -rwsr-sr-x ==================== ________________________________ BJSS Limited, 1st Floor Coronet House, Queen Street, Leeds LS1 2TW. Registered in England with company number 2777575. http://www.bjss.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. Thank you. ==============================================================================