RE: Start/Stop a Listener

John, All,

Thanks for the feedback. The reload worked fine without any hitches. The reason I was actually doing this John, was to bring the port numbers in line, as we had a tnsnames that showed two port numbers, and a listener file that only showed one, which seemed to cause connection problems.. Oh well.. all fixed now.

Cheers!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of John Kanagaraj
Sent: 17 October 2000 18:27
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Start/Stop a Listener

Hi Mark,

> We have a listener.ora file that has been updated to show an extra
> port for a connection. Now as I understand the listener has to be
> bounced for that change to take effect right?

The listener need not be bounced - it can be reloaded. The command is 'lsnrctl reload'. This will not kill any processes, but will just refresh the listener tables.

> So.. if we need to bounce the listener, would that have any affects on
> a production database? if so is there any way to get around it?

The listener establishes a new connection for the client/server connection on a new port, hands the whole connection over to the two communicating processes and literally steps back. Restart/reload does not affect existing connections. You should make sure however that the listening port numbers on the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora match.

Hth,
John Kanagaraj

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