Oracle process

[Sonia]

Hi..
what is the name of the process that comes up when oracle is started on UNIX.
I think similar to oracle.exe on windows..
regards
sonia

[sreddy]

Equivalent of oracle.exe on Unix are number of back ground processes (pmon,smon,dbwr,lgwr and snp etc).

If you type in 'ps -ef|grep SID' you will see these processes.

ora_pmon_SID
ora_smon_SID
ora_ckpt_SID
ora_lgwr_SID