Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 26/12/2006 6:35 AM:
the file descriptors, wrote a meaningless error messages and died. Would it be too much to kindly ask Oracle to add a @#$%! signal handler telling me that I have to clean up the @#$%! log file? I hate debugging on Christmas Eve!
I hear ye! Indeed there is a lack of this type of maintenance signal from the part of Oracle...
Of course, after a delicate application of "rm -f" command on the listener.log, listener started working like a charm. RMAN catalog was created in 2003 and listener was up, all this time.
Two words: "log rotation" and for the listener, there is even a nice command to make it start writing a new log file: no need to shutdown and restart listener!
Happy holidays to everybody!
And to you as well. -- Cheers Nuno Souto dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l