Well, my bumbling determinism finally paid off. After starting at the configuration laid down by the rpms, I could not figure out what was wrong, so I decided to recompile the php source with the OCI8 option (and -enable-sigchild which is advised in the configuration output) and for whatever reason, it works. Go figure. I believe the bug lies in the OCI rpm but that is just a guess. Thanks for all of you who tried to help. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]