Help, Our apps servers suddenly were not able to connect to our databases. Looking at the services it appeared that there were multiple listener processes running on port 1521. We are using Oracle listener 10g. It looked as if the parent process was in fact the other listener process (original listener process) listening on port 1521. Is Oracle somehow spawning additional listener processes? Thanks, Paula --------------------------------- Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better.