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From: "Peter van Rijn" <p.vanrijnREMOVE@THISzhew.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: rotating listener.log
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:10:03 +0100
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> >
> Listener writes to the log's inode, not the filename. So even if you
> rename the file, it will continue writing to it. The only way to change
> it is to restart the listener. Sorry ... that's how Oracle implemented it.
>

Partly true. It is writing to the inode, but doing

$ > listener.log

will not change it's inode number. At least not on HP.

Peter