Starting works Pete, take another coffee and look in in the message. Does your service stop? That was reported to be the problem. Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > Zip. Sorry, mine likewise has the asterisk and starts quite happily. > Look for something else, Mr. Drake! :) > > > Pete > > "Controlling developers is like herding cats." > Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook > > "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" > Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Paul Drake > Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 6:27 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: first (production) bug 10.1 on win32? > > D:\Oracle\ora101\BIN> net start > > (removed non-relevant rows) > > OracleCSService > OracleOraHome101iSQL*Plus > OracleOraHome101TNSListener > > D:\Oracle\ora101\BIN>net stop > "OracleOraHome101iSQL*Plus" > The service name is invalid. > > More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185. > > Who let out into production the use of an asterisk in > an OS service name? Probably the same type of user > that puts non-alpha numerics (including spaces) into > file names. > Humans. > > bug. > > Pd > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------