RE: LSNRCTL Password

Downside only if you want to have listener on different box - maybe for load balancing.

Alex Hillman

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:01 PM
To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; Hillman, Alex

Neat trick., hadn't thought of that.

Any downsides to using localhost?

Jared

On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:52, Hillman, Alex wrote:
> This is why I now use localhost instead of hostname.
>
> Alex Hillman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:26 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Alex,
>
> >Could you explain please how somebody with DBA provileges on
> >another node
> >can shutdown listener on another node without logging as user
> >of the node
> >where listener is running.
>
> I fully agree with Jared. We encountered this when I duplicated the Prod
> server (including the SQL*net config file) onto a Test box and bounced the
> test box. The listener.ora file contains the name of the Prod server and
> the automatic stop/start script executed a 'lsnrctl stop' as part of
> shutdown - this sent a STOP signal to the identified host (the Prod
> server). This stopped the listener on another system!!
>
> It is quite easy to test this out - you can create a dummy listener.ora on
> the Prod box, point that to the Dev box and stop the listener from Prod...
>
> Hth,
> John Kanagaraj

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