Hi, guys!
I am a newbie. I am using 9.2.0.3 on HP-UX 11i. I know I need to do
some housekeeping work for my alert_sid.log files regularly. I am just
not sure whether I have done the correct things.
For database "odmdev", my background_dump_dest =
'$ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev/bdump'. I didn't set user_dump_dest (maybe
should have), so Oracle uses default value '$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log'.
Last monday, I removed the existing BIG alert_odmdev.log to some
archive folder and I expected Oracle would create new alert_odmdev.log
and that file will grow. It didn't. Instead, I found an
"alert_odmdev.log" file in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log. Two things are
troubling me:
- The log file in '$ORALCE_HOME/rdbms/log' was created before I
removed the previous log file from '$ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev/bdump',
this seems like we had two "alert_odmdev.log" in different places
before I removed the one from 'ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev'. Is it
normal? Since it happened to be in the default user_dump_dest, does
this mean the one in '$ORALCE_HOME/rdbms/log' was created by RMAN as a
user? (he uses Oracle supplied scripts using RMAN for running a backup
of a NOARCHIVELOG database, which run the following commands for an
incremental backup. log in as "sqlplus /). I changed the
user_dump_dest to be '$ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev/udump', if the log is
created by RMAN, hopefully tomorrow I can find a log file there.
- The last message in the log file in '$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log' was
one week BEFORE I removed the log file from
'$ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev/bdump'. In the mean time we don't have any
log file for this database in '$ORACLE_HOME/admin/odmdev/bdump', so
virtually I lost all the log info for this database after I removed
the log file in '$ORALCE_HOME/admin/odmdev/bdump'. I started-up the
database, did something then shutdown and then still I could not find
anything about it in the log in '$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log'.
Any ideas about where the valid log goes in this case?
Thanks,
Gary
Received on Tue Sep 02 2003 - 19:55:22 CDT
