Hi Gurus,

I just setup Oracle 10gR2 on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike). After creating db, during my checks on processes - by "ps -ef | grep ora_" - nothing turned up!
I am still logged in sqlplus with following messages. Also doung tail -f on alert log under still other session.

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  369098752 bytes
Fixed Size                  1219496 bytes
Variable Size             130024536 bytes
Database Buffers          234881024 bytes
Redo Buffers                2973696 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> !ps -ef | grep ora_
oracle    2221  2025  0 09:12 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/bash -c ps -ef | grep ora_
oracle    2223  2221  0 09:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ora_


SQL> !ps -ef | grep oracle
oracle    2029  2027  0 09:04 ?        00:00:00 [sshd]
oracle    2030  2029  0 09:04 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash
oracle    2092     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2094     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2096     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2098     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2100     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2102     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2104     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2106     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2108     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2110     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:02 [oracle]
oracle    2112     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2114     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2116     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2118     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2120     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2122  2025  1 09:05 ?        00:00:04 [oracle]
oracle    2124     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2134     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2136     1  0 09:05 ?        00:00:00 [oracle]
oracle    2139  2030  0 09:07 pts/1    00:00:00 tail -f /usr/software/oracle/admin/prod/bdump/alert_prod.log
oracle    2142  2140  0 09:07 ?        00:00:00 [sshd]
oracle    2143  2142  0 09:07 pts/2    00:00:00 -bash
oracle    2224  2025  0 09:12 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/bash -c ps -ef | grep oracle

<< some X and gnome processes removed >>

Has anyone experienced this before? Is this alarming for any reason (except "that oracle is not supported for this release of OS!") ?


Thanks,

DP