On 15/08/12 12:36, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote: > Previously installed Oracle 10G and 11G R1. Yesterday, installed 11.2.0.3. > Today decided to shutdown the 11g r1 listener and start the 11g r2 listener. > Would then change ports on 11g r1 and restart it for anything needing the old > listener, i.e. extproc. Well, I halted the 11gr1 listener and attempted to > start the new listener and received a message that "listener already > running"!! Did a status and it is using listener.ora from 10G directory! Set > oracle_home and tried another status and it is now using listener.ora from > 11G R1 home. Why isn't it using the correct home? What is in the listener.ora file in your 11g netwok/admin for this particular listener? I suspect you have an entry that specified the 10g software rather than the 11g. Look in the ORACLE_HOME parameter of the SID_LIST_listener_name entry. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l