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On 1/25/06, MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On a related topic, Oracle sometimes decides to startua second listener on
> the same port; there by causing denial of service.
If you mean the server does this automatically, can you explain? I'm not familiar with that.
Under Oracle 9i and before the password only provided protection against
> shutting down the listener, not starting it up.
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IIRC you can shut down the listener remotely, but need to be on the server
to start it.
This applies to unix and linux.
On windows, anyone with admin access can remotely stop/start the listener through the Services applet.
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Jan 26 2006 - 11:12:01 CST
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