I'm runnnig Oralce9i on Solaris 8.Doing lsnrctl start LISTENER_$NAME
works fine with me.

you got an error?

Chuck wrote:
> nx2zdk@gmail.com wrote:
> > Oh,Thanks..
> > it's done!
>
> Pretty strange if you ask me. I start/stop/status my named listeners
> without the the "LISTENER_" portion all the time. In fact if I try to
> use it I get an error.
>
> What is your O/S platform?