Re: Rename alert log

I don't know if anyone mentioned Solaris. Running Sun/Sparc Solaris 6&7 and Oracle 8.1.7.1. A cron job filed shell script does a cp only, no touch, then mails the old log to the DBAs. It works the same way as it did a month or two ago when we went from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7: next time Oracle needs to write something, it creates a new file.
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> Okay folks, I *knew* I wasn't crazy! thanks to Anita for finding the post
> that Bruce sent to the list, that had the metalink doc in it
>
> There was also a bug filed on it (which was closed as "not a bug") bug#
> 1388186
>
> It was filed for Solaris so this might just mean that the "feature" is
> Solaris specific, since people here are saying that they haven't seen it
on
> other platforms.
>
> We are on Solaris, but our scripts are written such that we don't rename
the
> alert log so I haven't been able to prove it one way or another.
>
> Rachel
>
> Note:122401.1
> Type: BULLETIN
> Status: PUBLISHED
> Content Type: TEXT/PLAIN
> Creation Date: 18-OCT-2000
> Last Revision Date: 14-MAY-2001
>
> Problem Description
> -------------------
>
> The Oracle background processes has an open file descriptor on the
> alert.log.
> When the database is up and running it continually holds this file
> descriptor open. This was not the case in 7.3.4, but is true for 8.0.5 to
> 8.1.7.
>
> This poses the question: What if the database is up and the alert.log
> gets too large. Do I have to shutdown the database to release the open
file
> descriptor on the alert.log, then deal with the large alert.log?
>
>
> Solution Description
> --------------------
>
> You are able to copy the alert.log while the database is up and running.
>
> 1) Create an empty file:
> (example: touch nullfile.log)
>
> 2) Replace the old alert.log with the new empty file:
> (example: mv nullfile.log alert<sid>.log)
>
> The running database experiences no affects when doing this.
>
>
> Explanation
> -----------
>
> Having the continual open file descriptor on the alert.log is intended
> behaviour for the database.
>
>
>
>
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