What shell? Did you make sure to export TNS_ADMIN? It has been a few years since I set up ASO, but I don't recall having to make any listener.ora parameters. It was a fairly low risk change in the sqlnet.ora depending on the value you choose to set on the client and server On 7/16/08, Michael Schmitt <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I had a quick question about the sqlnet.ora for an issue that I am having. > > We have a 10.2.0.3 database running AIX 5L. We wanted to test the Advance > security network encryption without interfering with the current > listener/configuration. > > Therefore, we set the TNS_ADMIN variable to a directory and placed the > listener.ora and sqlnet.ora file in the directory. We named the listener > LISTENER_SEC and set it to listen on a different port. > > We can start the listener with lsnrctl start LISTENER_SEC. However, for > some reason it is not picking up the sqlnet.ora in the TNS_ADMIN directory. > I set the following in the sqlnet.ora file as a test > > LOG_DIRECTORY_SERVER=/dbopt/oracle/10203/network/test > > However the listener is not writing to the log in that directory. Any ideas > on why it is not picking up the sqlnet.ora under the TNS_ADMIN directory? > > Thanks in advance > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Bradd Piontek Oracle Blog: http://piontekdd.blogspot.com Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/piontekdd -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l