On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Mad Unix wrote: > - The control files has been transfered from AIX5.3 to a Linux Machine !! This is an Oracle issue and not a CentOS issue. Please note that, typically, Oracle binary files are not portable between hardware and OS platforms. When I used to DBA Oracle (Oracle 8; that long ago) we were told by Oracle that files were not portable (eg between HPUX and Solaris, or Solaris and Linux). -- rgds Stephen