Cant see background processes in Solaris

Dear Sir,

My databases are up but cant see any background processes running
on Solaris platform. giving command

ps -ef|grep pmon

retrives nothing but my databases are up.

Please advise..i am really worried..

thanx in advance.

Sanctus

Whooops..

You database might be running in another machine!

Any how try ps -ef |grep ora

Folks its running on the same machine but i cannot see any bcakgrond processes can anybody tell me why?????

what is the result of select * from v$instance;?

does the host_name match ?

r u looking in the ORACLE user, owner of the ORACLE software installation. Can u check using root user.


regards
anandkl

It is impossible to have an Oracle database up without Oracle background processes on the database host machine. Period.

IMPOSSIBLE.