Fuadar, Thanks for your response. Everything is set to default. TNS_ADMIN,Listener name,log file location,port number,etc. Let me open a TAR with oracle to find out more. On 2/14/06, Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > is your listener.log in a non standard location i.e not in > $ORACLE_HOME/network/log > what is you TNS_ADMIN set to > i've seen something if listener.log is on a non standard location it > starts writing to $ORACLE_HOME/network/log -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l