Re: Listener won't start

I had a simular setup, one problem I had with the listener was my TCP/IP settings, Once that was straightend out on the NT side the listener started right up!
Steve Brown

Russ and Mary <galatians6_9_at_email.msn.com> wrote in message news:uw8t5eif#GA.281_at_upnetnews03...
>Hey folks,
> I have an NT 4.0 SP3 box with Oracle 7.3 running. We had an instance
>running ok, until we had a vendor came in and install some new software
>which required another instance for it. To make a long story short, the
>previous instance quit running....after some fooling around, after a
partial
>restore, I got the previous instance running again, but now the listener
>won't start. Both files, tnsnames.ora and listener.ora seem to be correct,
>they are not the ones from the restore and have both instances listed.
>When I select the listener in the Services box, I get an error message that
>says something like...unable to start listener...Internal Windows NT error.
>Obviously I am missing something. What other files are critical in the
>running of the listener? Any other way to synchronize these two files so
>listener will work?
>I would appreciate any help, or direction.....I am really under the gun
>here.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Russ
>Learning Oracle the hard way
>rmbraat_at_ftc-i.net
>
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 02:01:56 CEST