Re: LSNRCTL.EXE problem... on VAX/VMS, TCPIP, Multinet

In article <412rkp$ig6_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, Jack Jung <jjung_at_ca.oracle.com> wrote:
>Nicki;
>
>There should be a symbol, lsnrctl, that will invoke the sqlnet listener. This
>symbol is created by ora_netconfig:etconfiguser.com.
>At the operating system:
>
>$ lsnrctl start
>
>Jack

Jack pointed me in the right direction here... and I'm writing this to thank those people who took the time to reply and try to help me out, and in case someone else out there is in the same boat.

This morning we solved the network problems, here's why/how:

1. I looked at NETCONFIGUSER.COM and yep, it calls LSNRCTL.COM, not the .EXE version I was attempting to run.
2. I tried to _at_LSNRCTL (run the .COM version), and it displayed an message that I was missing 2 system privs necessary to start a listener.
3. Granted the two missing privs to my process and the listener started up!
4. Using the Oracle Server Manager via X-windows, was able to connect to 2 of our local dbs (that's all we have, a loopback on the host version), using "TNS:tnsnames_name" as the service name. Checked it out in LSNRCTL.EXE ("services") and saw that the connections looked like they were going through the listener.

What have I learned... it would have been nice had LSNRCTL.EXE displayed a message about missing privs instead of the "file or directory missing" error. It would ALSO have been nice had I been able to locate the docs (do they exist?) which mention using NETCONFIGUSER.COM (though I did find it and play around with it myself)...

After having read all the vax/vms specific docs on cd, sqlnet and network manager docs on cd, and taken the time of 2 Oracle consultants, I feel it was mostly an act of sheer luck that I was able to get this puppy up and running.

Good luck to every one else out there, and I hope this may be of some help to someone...

Thanks!

Nicki A Cartt

The Ohio State University Received on Mon Aug 21 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST