On 01/02/2007 11:13:41 PM, Mark Brinsmead wrote: > You need to put everything in a single invokation of LSNRCTL. Like this: Or, to use a Gordian knot type solution, you can kill the corresponding tnslsnr process. Essentially, that's all that lsnrctl does when stopping the listener. Listener even has its name on the command line, so that kill -9 is easy: $ ps -ef|grep tnslsnr|grep -v grep oracle 3114 1 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 /oracle/product/10g/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit $ -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l