I'm trying to figure out an issue on why my database service in a 10g Linux RAC environment does not automatically startup if I need to shutdown both database servers and restart. I have an instance called NGDAK and have a service created called NGDARRC. The NGDAK instance starts up on both nodes without any issues, however I always have to manually startup the NGDARRC service. I have the service enabled and I am trying to figure out why this happens. Here are my questions, I'm trying to find out: 1. Are there log files I can look at to see if the service is trying to startup? 2. Does the service entry need to be in the /etc/oratab, similar to the instance entry? Any other suggestions are welcome as well. Thanks in advance - JPD Jeff Dubovecky Consulting Engineer/DBA Union Switch and Signal Phone: (412) 688-2881 jpdubovecky@xxxxxxxxxx