From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon May 23 14:46:09 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4NJk9D7020640 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:09 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4NJk9Ni020636 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2895D1B0C34; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:43:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30079-10; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:43:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 76AB81B0C47; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:43:13 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BrQ3gxekuIcp56NSFCLwX0lGy8gq2VVUA1m2Itn07cJLTP2H0RHEl3B0YTNqt3pYM76WRUB4c63CiX+gYr3ZxMfDFl7dy3Nj2iEbrMfUgSMDTB+0gwqEFKtHsf+0V0A13qn5R+Lj0Dh7GQM8Hg9pNuuLkRxtSqk4GR/l5T921Ic= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:41:23 -0400 From: Paul Baumgartel To: jkstill@gmail.com Subject: Re: CPU April 2005 patching madness Cc: Oracle-L Freelists In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-archive-position: 20136 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 Resent to satisfy quoting percentage... Jared, =20 =20 > Trying to create a new spfile is no good: > > SQL> create spfile=3D'spfile_from_pfile.ora' from pfile; > create spfile=3D'spfile_from_pfile.ora' from pfile > * =20 Did you try specifying the full pfile path in this command? I usually take the default spfile location but spell out the pfile path: =20 create spfile from pfile=3D'd:\oracle\admin\foobar\pfile\init.ora'; =20 Paul =20 --=20 Paul Baumgartel paul.baumgartel@gmail.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l