It is also possible that your listener.ora file is corrupted while editing it manually. In such case listener service must give you error while statring it manually. Regards Rafiq On Apr 7, 2005 11:43 AM, Thomas Day <tomday2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Check the ORACLE_HOME that you're using in the listener.ora file. > > But something isn't right in the symptoms that you're reporting. If > the listener isn't starting automatically and you can't get it to > start manually then how did it report it's status? Did it start at > one time and won't start now? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l