Re: What happens if you lose the alert log?

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Oracle will just create another one whenever it needs to write to it. You can copy it to another place if you need to keep of just delete it. I delete mine periodically with no ill effect.

Regards,
Ruth
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> Hi,
>
> I had a situation yesterday where a rogue process wrote millions of
> error messages into the alert log. I was able to get rid of the process,
> then delete the error messages out. But it would have been quicker to just
> blow it away and create a new, empty one. I was concerned as to the effect
> that would have on Oracle. Would it bring Oracle down? What is the best
way
> to handle this?
>
>
> Bill Carle
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