Re: Listener starts but can't stop it.... ??????

"Dominic Baines" <dombaines_at_mmbq.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:8wrE7.45$Cl3.53671_at_news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Have recovered from a system crash and recovered the whole of a live
> database, install etc...
>
> DB seems fine (acts fine anyway) and dbstart and dbshut operate as before.
>
> lsnrctl start starts the listener as you'd expect but....
> lsnrctl stop can't stop the listeners... it's complaining about a
password.
>
> Anyone shed any light on this behaviour ?
>
> I can run kill-9 <pid> so the listener stops and I stop the DB first.
>
> It's RedHat 7.1 (with binutils downgraded, and the i386 lib files copied
> etc...) and Oracle 8.1.7..
>
> Dev box so non-critical but would be interesting to know what is going on.
>
> --
> Dominic Baines
>
>
>

If you have a password defined in your listener.ora, stop will be a privileged operation requiring the password. If the password is unencrypted in listener.ora set password <password>
stop
will resolve this
if the password is encrypted in listener.ora set password<return>
password : <your password>
stop
should do.
Of course you could edit the password out, but that won't help the current process.

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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