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Re: Oracle not logging or tracing

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:53:23 -0800
Message-ID: <1135270386.493273@jetspin.drizzle.com>


Crazy Cat wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:
> 

>>Crazy Cat wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel A. Morgan wrote:
>>>Crazy Cat wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>>This time I have a path for the log and one for trace as well as names
>>>>for each of the files, and I am still getting no logging.
>>>>I have only access to the server database so I can't user listener.log.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there anything else I can do ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Given most of us have no access to previous posts to this thread I
>>>haven't a clue what version of Oracle, what the problem is, what
>>>entries you have in your SQLNET.ORA file, or anything else.
>>>
>>>Expect little or no help unless there is sufficient information from
>>>which someone can formulate a response. Have you looked at metalink
>>>yet or is your firm yet another Oracle customer too cheap to pay for
>>>support?
>>>--
>>>
>>>
>>>My response :
>>>
>>>Sorry about that --I'm using Google groups which doesn't automatically
>>>paste the original message in the reply -- it's the only newsreader I
>>>have access to unfortunately. Anyways here's what I got in my
>>>sqlnet.ora --
>>>
>>># sqlnet.ora Network Configuration File:
>>>D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\NETWORK\ADMIN\sqlnet.ora
>>># Generated by Oracle configuration tools.
>>>
>>>SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS)
>>>
>>>TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT = ADMIN
>>>
>>>NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES)
>>>
>>>TRACE_DIRECTORY_CLIENT =
>>>D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\network\trace
>>>
>>>TRACE_FILE_CLIENT = sqlnet.trc
>>>
>>>LOG_FILE_CLIENT = sqlnet.log
>>>
>>>LOG_DIRECTORY_CLIENT = D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\network\log
>>>
>>>As far as I know this company does not have metalink support.
>>>
>>>What other info would you like me to supply? I'll post my original
>>>message below -- once again I apologize for the lack of indentation
>>>to make reading clearer, but I am using Google's subpar interface.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Original message follows --
>>>
>>>Crazy Cat
>>> Dec 19, 3:40 pm hide options
>>>
>>>Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
>>>From: "Crazy Cat" <danbr..._at_hotmail.com> - Find messages by this author
>>>
>>>Date: 19 Dec 2005 12:40:36 -0800
>>>Local: Mon, Dec 19 2005 3:40 pm
>>>Subject: Oracle not logging or tracing
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>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm having a problem with connecting to a version 9 Oracle database
>>>with SQL Server 2005 and the Micrsoft Oracle Ole DB Provider with an
>>>Oracle 10 client. Basically when I attempt to connect to a linked
>>>server in SQL Server 2005 that uses the Microsoft Ole DB Provider I get
>>>
>>>the following error - Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1 Cannot initialize the
>>>
>>>data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDAORA" for linked server
>>>"MSORACLE".
>>>
>>>
>>> In attempting to get more info on the problem I discovered that
>>>apparently my Oracle client is not logging any errors. I went into the
>>>Oracle Net Manager and set the trace level to Admin and left all the
>>>other parameters blank (assuming that it would just write to the
>>>defaults), but no files are produced (sqlnet.trc or sqlnet.log).
>>>
>>>
>>>Am I missing something here?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>Try this set
>>
>># Debugging Parameters
>>trace_level_client= 16
>>trace_file_client=client
>>trace_directory_client=c:\temp
>>trace_unique_client=true
>>
>>Or the equivalent for your operating system if not Windows.
> 
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> (I finally found out how to quote previous messages in google -- it
> wasn't very obvious).
> 
> I did this but no dice. Is there some service I should restart as well?
> Thanks for your patience.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 

>>--
>>Daniel A. Morgan
>>http://www.psoug.org
>>damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>>(replace x with u to respond)

Still top posting. Can you find a solution to that too?

No there is nothing to start though you might want to restart the listener and do a FIND for *log on every directory under ORACLE_BASE.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Thu Dec 22 2005 - 10:53:23 CST

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