Starting a separate listener process

[stressball]

Hi
I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on Redhat 6.2.
I need to start a separate listener process to exclusively handle external procedures. How do I create one, I assume I do this in the listener.ora file, but I don't know the syntax to create and use one.

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

Sharon,

modify your $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora from:

LISTENER=
(
<yadda, yadda, yadda>
)

to

<name of 1st listener>=
(
<yadda, yadda, yadda>
)
<name of 2nd listener>=
(
<yadda, yadda, yadda>
)

when you start/stop them you'll have to specify one (i.e. start <name of 1st listener> or stop <name of 2nd listener>). this is explained in the online docs if you have trouble.

now, a question for you:

are you doing anything serious w/8.1.6 on RedHat or just playing?

I ask because we would like to convert from Solaris to Linux (or more specifically from $250K/box SPARC II to ~$25K/box PIII) but haven't been able to find anyone with prod experience using Oracle on Linux.

 

[stressball]

I have installed Redhat 6.2 Oracle 8.1.6 and I am now installing Oracle 9i Application Server. This is going to be the development server for a project my company is working on. I personally think it will run quite good on RH6.2 but I don't have actual experience in using the combination yet. I do know that Redhat 7 does not work so well with Oracle 8, this may be fixed in the future.