Here is the output. Permissions looks ok to me. Not sure what to try next. $ sqlplus Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory $ ls -lrt total 400 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 4096 Jul 27 14:02 cpyus.msb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 4369 Jul 27 14:02 cpyus.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 11776 Jul 27 14:02 sp1us.msb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 17414 Jul 27 14:02 sp1us.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 28672 Jul 27 14:02 sp2us.msb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 116170 Jul 27 14:02 sp2us.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 3584 Jul 27 14:02 sp3us.msb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 506 Jul 27 14:02 sp3us.msg ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:30 PM To: Harvinder Singh Cc: Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: Re: sqlplus issues Have you checked to see if the file is there? ls -l $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/mesg/sp1*.ms? -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 11264 Apr 26 2002 /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/sqlplus/mesg/sp1us.msb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 16590 Mar 6 2002 /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/sqlplus/mesg/sp1us.msg Are the permissions correct if the files do exist? On 7/27/05, Harvinder Singh <Harvinder.Singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, We installed the oracle 10g on solaris 10 and getting following error: $ sqlplus Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory ORACLE_HOME and other parameters are set in .profile: $ echo $ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1 $ echo $PATH /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/bin:/usr/bin What can be the possible issue? Thanks --Harvinder -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist