Find oracle home

Hi,
DB : 8i and 10g and 11g
OS : Redhat 5 and AIX 6
We have 5 db in a test server with same user name and different oracle home.Some times people wrongly started the db from other oracle home.How to find a instance using which oracle home in the server?
How to find it?
Thanks & Regards,
VN
Edited by: user3266490 on Apr 24, 2012 4:41 PM

some times we started db with pfile from non default location?How to find where that pfile located?you cannot find the nondefault location of pfile ..
When we have more than one oracle homes in a server,How to find A instance using which oracle home?Use the above command from the on prompt
--neeraj

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