Hi, you might want to look at a paper i found a link to called "Undocumented Oracle - what they didn't teach you ate Oracle" - there is a link on my site http://www.petefinnigan.com/other.htm - it talks about file internals and also about the startup and bootstrap$. The guy does a binary edit on svrmgrl to change bootstrap$ name and also to change some text in a v$ table. kind regards Pete -- Pete Finnigan email:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists Book:Oracle security step-by-step Guide - see http://store.sans.org for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------