Deleting alert_<sid>.log while db is running?

From: Guang Mei <zlmei_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:33:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D75B3.20010325080519@fatcity.com>

Hi:

I have a oracle db (oracle 8.0.5 on Sun Unix) whose alert_<sid>.log size is too large. I want to delete it.

Can I just simply do "rm alert_<sid>.log" without shuting down the db, assuming there is no "writting" going on to the file at that moment? I usually do shutdown, delete alert log file, and then startup db again. But this is a 24*7 db and can not be shutdown.

TIA.

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