You can also supply a filename to the dump_tnsnames command.

ie.  dump_tnsnames /tmp/tnsnames.tmp

Jared

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 11:14, John Kanagaraj wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> You could always get around this problem by obtaining an upto date
> TNSNAMES.ORA on any Names-aware client using the 'namesctl dump_tnsnames'
> command that will create/update the tnsnames.ora with the entries from
> Names servers. I would suggest renaming the original tnsnames.ora _just_
> before doing this, and having some script check the sizes of the created
> file (just in case).
>
> John Kanagaraj
> Oracle Applications DBA
> DBSoft Inc
> (W): 408-970-7002
>
> What would you see if you were allowed to look back at your life at the end
> of your journey in this earth?
>
> ** The opinions and statements above are entirely my own and not those of
> my employer or clients **
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:25 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: MicroSlop DTC
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, it's not just a problem with this product.  Some Oracle
> > products like OEM can incorrectly populate TNSNAMES.ORA "for
> > you" because of
> > course that's always the best thing to do (and isn't there
> > another Oracle
> > product that requires it or am I confusing that with the
> > semi-Intelligent
> > Agent's requirement of a LISTENER.ORA?).
> >
> > And Quest's QCO will largely not work correctly in v2.4 (and
> > to some extent
> > in 2.5) without a correctly populated TNSNAMES.ORA (sorry
> > Jacques!).  I went
> > around and around with Quest Support as to why this is
> > incorrect and why I
> > refuse to manually populate a TNSNAMES.ORA on some or all clients.
> > Supposedly, it'll be fixed in v3.
> >
> > Desperately trying to get rid of all TNSNAMES.ORAs on all
> > non-DBA boxes...
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:15 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: RE: MicroSlop DTC
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, as well as SQL*Plus and ODBCTST.
> > >
> > > Dick Goulet
> > > Senior Oracle DBA
> > > Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:59 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hum, does tnsping resolve the service correctly?
> > >
> > > Ron Thomas
> > >
> > > 9.2.0.1.0  On Win 2K.
> > >
> > > Dick Goulet
> > > Senior Oracle DBA
> > > Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:54 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've seen this happen with older versions of the sqlnet
> > > client (Different application, same
> > > symptom).  What version of the client are you using?
> > >
> > > Ron Thomas
> > > Hypercom, Inc
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
> > > -- Kernighan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > To All, especially any WEB developers out there.
> > >
> > >              We've a WEB based application that uses MS DTC.
> > > OK, so we turned on XA in the
> > > database, but the web servers do not want to play with our
> > > normal ONmase setup.  Instead they only
> > > want to work with a TNSNAMES.ORA file in the appriopriate
> > > place.  I've been all over MicroSlop
> > > Technet and Metalink as well as  several other IIS sites with
> > > no results.  Therefore anyone know why
> > > this is??
> > >
> > > Dick Goulet
> > > Senior Oracle DBA
> > > Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> >
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> > Author: Jesse, Rich
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