OK, that looks like it. When I stopped ZServer (which was originally started by init on boot) and restarted it from a logon (which would have run /etc/profile where all the Oracle environment variables were initialised), I was able to connect. It looks like I need to set these ORACLE_ environment variables in my startup scripts. Is it a good idea to do this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/zope, or would you recommend doing it somewhere else? BTW, Rob, I am extremely impressed by your prompt response. Many thanks. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Rob Page [mailto:rob.page@digicool.com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2000 11:15 To: 'Nerlich, Andrew' Cc: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope/Linux/Oracle - Cannot establish DB connection Andrew Nerlich wrote:

I'm connecting http->ZServer.

Does the user under which ZServer is running have ORACLE_HOME defined? --Rob _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )