Oracle Listener service not found

[Ganesh Natarajan]

hi,

I am in the process of installing oracle 9.1 . But as i completed the installation, i found listener service not found under services.

What should i do now? Please advice!

Ganesh N

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I would suggest configuring it.

The installation program has a GUI that permits you to point and click and configure.

If configured correctly lsnrctl util will permit you to start and stop the listener.

There is also an install doc at http://technet.oracle.com that should show exactly how to do this.

SEP

[Alpha977]

Hello Ganesh!

When the Oracle installation end, you must configure a listener.ora file.

Then, connect with oracle user,start the db then launch:

$lsnrctl start

And see if it start.

Report here the problem.

Regards.

[Ganesh Natarajan]

hi,

I have done the configuration, but the listener is not listed in the services.

Please advice

Ganesh N

[Alpha977]

Hello Ganesh!

You can configure it into /sbin/rcX.d (X = runlevel number you want to start)

Confiugre your script into the rcX.d directory.

For example:

rc3.d#ll
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23 Jul 12 2006 S100nfs.server -> /sbin/init.d/nfs.server
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 19 Jul 12 2006 S200tps.rc -> /sbin/init.d/tps.rc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24 Jul 12 2006 S823hpws_apache -> /sbin/init.d/hpws_apache
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24 Jul 12 2006 S823hpws_tomcat -> /sbin/init.d/hpws_tomcat
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24 Jul 12 2006 S823hpws_webmin -> /sbin/init.d/hpws_webmin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 26 Jul 12 2006 S823hpws_webproxy -> /sbin/init.d/hpws_webproxy
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 26 Jul 12 2006 S823hpws_xmltools -> /sbin/init.d/hpws_xmltools
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Aug 23 10:14 S900OVTrcSrv -> /sbin/init.d/OVTrcSrv
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Sep 14 13:11 S911samba -> /sbin/init.d/samba
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 19 Aug 23 10:15 S920OVCtrl -> /sbin/init.d/OVCtrl
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Jul 14 2006 S940ov300 -> /sbin/init.d/ovoracle
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 18 Jul 14 2006 S940ov500 -> /sbin/init.d/ov500
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 23 Jul 12 2006 S990dtlogin.rc -> /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Oct 19 14:54 S999BIND -> /sbin/init.d/BIND
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 19 Sep 19 18:14 S999Webmin -> /sbin/init.d/Webmin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Sep 14 14:29 S99prngd.rc -> /sbin/init.d/prngd.rc


Regards!

[Patrick Wallek]

Are you talking about the /etc/services file? If so, the listener is NOT added to that file automatically. If you want it in there, you must add it manually. However, it is NOT absolutely necessary for the listener to be defined there in order for it to work.

To start the listener, you need to do 'lsnrctl start', or 'lsnrctl start ' where is the name of your listener if different from the default.