Hi fhorvath,
Thank you for your reply where you said, I quote: " If you shut it down, you need to bring it up." Were you talking about shuting down the Database services, the LISTENER and the Applications service? Or, were you talking about shuting down the machine itself (the laptop) completely? This is because, my question was about STARTING the Database services, the LISTENER and the Applications services purely because you have just switched off your laptop and restarted it, and then login to Enterprise Linux. Thank you.

With regards to the db services, listener, appl services..
If you shut them down you will of course have to start them up.
If you shut down your PC.. you will have to start the services up.

I basically start everything up in the AM and shut it all down in the PM.
Each and every day. I keep things running for about 12 hours per day before I shut it all down.

I hope I am understanding your question.
Sorry. but, I don't think this is an easy way of do all this...

Thank you for your reply. I know now that you have understood my previous question. This is not a problem when you install Oracle Apps on Windows XP platform where you can elect to have the various Services started Automaticall or Manually.