Hello gandolf,

Thank you very much for our reply. I ran the oracle daemon as root, but all the relevant programs are running under the oracle user nonetheless. Does it make a difference in that case? Also, here is the result from the command you told me to execute:

[zeke@zeke bin]$ ps -ef | grep dbw0
oracle 12804 1 0 04:39 ? 00:00:00 xe_dbw0_XE
zeke 13453 11461 0 04:54 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dbw0

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to be helpful or useful.

Much appreciated,

ezekielg