I would like to hear the answer to that one when you find it. I did not have the problem in Linux in Opensuse 10.2. What distro did you use? On Dec 20, 2007 8:37 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > all > > I'm betraying my ignorance here so be gentle. We configured an oracle > account with an ORACLE_HOME environment variable ( in .bash_profile) of > > /path/to/oracle/home > > and also set the PATH as $ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH $ORACLE_SID was also set > correctly. > > connecting to the running database gave 'initialisation or shutdown in > progress'. If however we ran oraenv we were able to connect. On comparison > we discovered that if we set ORACLE_HOME as > > /path/to/oracle/home/ (trailing /) > > then we could connect just fine. My question is why is the trailing slash > apparently necessary? > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'