Did you try setting TNSADMIN variable? http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/gateways.102/b16209/ch4.htm HTH GovindanK On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:26:55 -0500, "Wolfson Larry - lwolfs" <lawrence.wolfson@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Got a couple of clients who had us install 10G on some servers where > some have DBs and some don't. > > The installers activated the 10G listener (because we always use highest > version) and we got 1000s of > oerr tns 12618 > 12618, 00000, "TNS:versions are incompatible" > // *Cause: The two machines are running incompatible versions of TNS. > // *Action: Check the version numbers, and upgrade the machine with the > // smaller one. > > What's really happening is anytime someone/thing, like monitor programs, > executes lsnrctl from lower release we're getting error. > > I thought we could just rename lsnrctl in lower releases and put in soft > link to 10G lsnrctl program. > > Someone suggested we could have problems with NLS settings and should > replace lsnrctl with a script instead? > > Anyone know if link is enough or do we have to watch out for something > else? > > > Thanks > Larry -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l