In Terminal , /root/.bash_profile: line 14: syntax error: unexpected end of file . I checked my .Bash_profile . No Modification I made in the File. I am new to CentOS and i Completely New to Linux. Can Anyone help me to Solve the Problem This is the .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH and My /etc/profile is # /etc/profile # System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc pathmunge () { if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|$1($|" ; then if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then PATH=$PATH:$1 else PATH=$1:$PATH fi fi } # Path manipulation if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then pathmunge /sbin pathmunge /usr/sbin pathmunge /usr/local/sbin fi pathmunge /usr/X11R6/bin after pathmunge /home/dmadmin/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_2/bin # No core files by default ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1 USER="`id -un`" LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` HISTSIZE=1000 ORACLE_HOME=/home/dmadmin/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_2; export ORACLE_HOME lIBPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib;$LIBPATH; export LIBPATH ORACLE_SID=orcl; export ORACLE_SID if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc fi export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -r "$i" ]; then . $i fi done unset i unset pathmunge Can Anyone Help me ? Thanks and regards Madhu

# .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH unset USERNAME This is the /root/.bash_profile file that I have in Centos the only difference I see is the last line,,, unset USERNAME the /etc/profile is # /etc/profile # System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc pathmunge () { if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then PATH=$PATH:$1 else PATH=$1:$PATH fi fi } # ksh workaround if [ -z "$EUID" -a -x /usr/bin/id ]; then EUID=`id -u` UID=`id -ru` fi # Path manipulation if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then pathmunge /sbin pathmunge /usr/sbin pathmunge /usr/local/sbin fi # No core files by default ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then USER="`id -un`" LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" fi HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` HISTSIZE=1000 if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc fi export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -r "$i" ]; then . $i fi done unset i unset pathmunge It would appear to me that something in the Oracle DB has modified something somewhere,,,, MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running fedora 7 xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!