I had installed the oracle in my linux box and i want to make it up when I boot and shut it down before the system shutdown happens. At which runlevel I shoould put the script for starting it up and shutiing it down. As it has to login as oracle user to preform shutdown and startup. thanx in advance -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.