Hey thanks for the followup. I removed the .bashrc file and cleaned up the .profile syntax as you suggested. However, I am still getting the error the same as before. Still says that the ORACLE_SID is not defined and that I need to define it. It is too vague an error message and shoule inform someone like me just where the heck I should define it!@#$%^& Other than in the .profile file, what about the oratab file? When I orifinally looked at it yesterday there was no definitions written to it, so I manually entered the following:
$ORACLE_SID:$Jacob:Y:
Any other suggestions?
Bill