Hi,
Try creating a small script on the remote host like

PATH=$HOME/bin:${PATH:-/usr/bin:.}
export PATH
PATH=.:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/opt/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
export ORACLE_HOME=/ora01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
/ora01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/lsnrctl start listener

rsh -l oracle &

where:
a) node is the remote node I'm starting "listener" on,
b) "rsh_start_listener" is a shell script on node that contains:

I hope this work, this is not the solution but a work-around.
Bye