On 7/8/05, Joeffrey Betita <jmbetita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > all i get after typing "emctl start dbconsole" command not found. thanks for > your help emctl probably isn't in your default path. If you installed oracle into /opt/ or wherever you'll have to modify your path accordingly. You can do this one user at a time by editing ~/.bash_profile or you can do this sytem-wide by making a file in /etc/profile.d/ called oracle.sh with the contents similar to below if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /path/to/oracle/install ; then PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/oracle/install/bin fi This will set oracle to the end of all future login paths, so you should not after logging out/back in, you should see no more command not found junk. -- Jim Perrin System Administrator Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center