Re: Renaming / deleting listener.log and alert log

From: Vitalis Jerome <vitalisman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:35:24 +0200
Message-ID: <68b1285505061005354bcbfdf4@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/10/05, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) <Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us> wrote:
> Paul,

>=20

> It is absolutely ok to rename the alert.log while the database is up and
> running. I do it all the time. =20
> This file is not open all the time - Oracle opens and closes it as it nee=
ds to write to it.

On Unix, the second statement is not true (checked on Aix and Linux). And the first one is not completely wrong but it is not clean to "mv" a file which is still open by a process.

Cheers
Jerome

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