name of listener

[yls177]

Hi, i noticed in one of my databases that there is a name of the listener. so by doing a start in LSNRCTL>, i wont be able to do so. But if i do a start LISTENERNAME, then i am able. However, i am not able to identify the name, only when the personnel told me so.

Is there a way to check?

[davey23uk]

look in the listener.ora if the listener is called listener then just start will do

[yls177]

Hi.

You are right. Initially, i went to path /oracle/SID/817_64/network/admin and could not find the listener name in my listener.ora. However, i noticed from my status listener that it reads the configuration file from /etc/listener.ora instead. And from there, YES, the listener name is right there.

1) where is this pointing of /etc/listener.ora set? i could not find it in my initsid.ora or neither any ifiles at all?

2) so i can set the name of my listener in listener.ora?

[pando]

look your TNS_ADMIN Env variable

[yls177]

Hi.

I did a grep -i admin and nothing was returned.

[davey23uk]

did a grep -i admin on what?

[SANJAY_G]

You can keep your listener.ora and tnsnames.ora either in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin or /etc without explitly setting TNS_ADMIN.

[yls177]

Originally posted by davey23uk
did a grep -i admin on what?

Hi, davey23uk!

Pando advised me to check my TNS_ADMIN variable. Therefore, i did a "env | grep -i admin" and nothing was returned.

You can keep your listener.ora and tnsnames.ora either in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin or /etc without explitly setting TNS_ADMIN.

Hi sanjay, my query is with the setting and priority of listener in either /oracle/SID/817_64/network/admin or /etc/listener.ora?

[davey23uk]

use truss on lsncrtl to see what is being read first.

If you dont want to use /etc, remove the file from it

[yls177]

Hi.

Are u referring to trace?

I search for truss, tusc but no hits even after a full file system search. Please advise