Fadi / Shantha, Thanks for the information. Now one quick question. Can I run these 2 scripts separately to generate listener.ora and tnsnames.ora or does these scripts have data dependency. Regds, Irfan ----- Original Message ---- From: shantha kumar <shanthanu.t@xxxxxxxxx> To: ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 4, 2008 2:24:35 PM Subject: Re: recreating TNSNAMES.ORA and LISTENER.ORA hi irfan and fadi, AutoConfig execute the admk80ln.sh script in the PROFILE PHASE this script will generate listener.ora file. shantha kumar. On 1/4/08, Fadi Hasweh <fhasweh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: hi irfan, as far as i know autoconfig runs adgentns.pl to generat tnsnames.ora but not sure about listener.ora fadi Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:30:46 -0800 From: irfanwiz@xxxxxxxxx Subject: recreating TNSNAMES.ORA and LISTENER.ORA To: ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hello Everyone, Is there a way to recreating tnsnames.ora and listener.ora file without running autoconfig. Autoconfig must be running some sub script to generate these files. I would like to know the name of that script. regards, Irfan Momin Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger -- shantha ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ