Rogue listener process spawned

Hi.
If this alert is raised, what is the best course of action?
$ ps -ef | grep lsn
root 2997 1 0 2008 ? 00:00:00 [ocfslsnr]
oracle 5517 1 0 2008 ? 00:16:36 /u01/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER_02 -inherit
Looks like there is only 1 listener, or two listener processes?
Thanks.
DA
Edited by: Dan A on Mar 28, 2009 4:45 AM

You forgot to mention your environment (OS and version,database version), but obviously you're running OCFS (Oracle Cluster Filesystem), ocfslsnr is the OCFS listener,not the regular database listener.
Werner

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