Hey Mladen, Even with runaway DBNSMP and (semi)Intelligent Agent processes, I've always had the great fortune of filling up my Oracle partition before any log files got "too big". How big is EFfingBIG on Linux? 32 or 64 bit? I want to assume 2GB, but I won't. Hope your Christmas was merry anyway with that coal in your stocking... :( Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 1:36 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Interesting Christmas Eve listener problem Last night, I was paged because the listener on my RMAN catalog database died and could not have been restarted. The error was, as it came to be expected, extremely instructive and revealing: bash-2.05$ lsnrctl start LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 9.2.0.8.0 - Production on 24-DEC-2006 20:08:55 Copyright (c) 1991, 2006, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Starting /ORACLE/app/oracle/product/920/bin/tnslsnr: please wait... TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact TNS-12560: TNS:proto adapter error TNS-00517: Lost contact Linux Error: 32: Broken pipe bash-2.05$ [snip] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l