service handle not initialized error

From: SQ <onestatusquo_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 1 Aug 2005 12:52:59 -0700
Message-ID: <1122925979.754078.284850@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

I just installed Oracle 9.0.1. on Linux Advanced Server 2.1.

When I try to connect to it, I get:

SQL> connect / as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-24314: service handle not initialized

The environment variables like ORACLE_SID seem to be set correctly. But I am missing the listener.ora configuration file. It's nowhere on the system. Why wasn't it installed by default? And where do I get a sample one? (with values filled in, so I know what values to substitute) Received on Mon Aug 01 2005 - 14:52:59 CDT