# I have come to use my own version of oraenv; oraenvset as a replacement. oraenv has a spot for customizations, but then you have to be careful with root.sh. All my scripts call it, and I never have to worry about whether the sysadmin replaces oraenv. ... Yup similar setup here ... I never want to make any assumptions about what is in place or not from oracle setting the environment. Similarly I always rip out all the oracle restart functionality. A really really bad idea to try to startup anything automagically after a server reboot at least in my opinion. Well then you patch and you have to disable oracle restart again each time ... like a zombie it tries to live again! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l