What patch did you have in mind? The SuSE support page doesn't list any for the Oracle 8i release 2 and SuSE 6.4, 7.0 or 7.1 (just orarun.rpm, which contains startup scripts). Thanks, bw Adam Leach wrote:

Hi, This question is probably better targeted at the SuSE Oracle Mailing list. Anyway to need to download a patch for Oracle from the SuSE Oracle Support Site at: http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/