Re: large sqlnet.log files at strange places

Hi,

 these logfiles are created in the current working directory  whenever network errors occur.
 sql*net/net8 can be configured via sqlnet.ora (usually in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin)

Karsten

In article <7v7j21$i3n$1_at_news.kabelfoon.nl>,   "remco" <rdoremal_at_kabelfoon.nl> wrote:
> We have some java applications which are using oracle client to
connect to a
> 8.0.4 oracle database.
> It is a complete NT system. Database on an NT server and client
applications
> on the workstations.
>
> All workstations have the same java application started in the same
way and
> doing the same thing, but the sqlnet.log file appears in different
> directories on the different machines. We even found several
instances of
> the log file in different directories on one and the same machine.
> Some are 23 Mb. The location of the log file is really strange and
seems not
> to have anything to do with oracle.
>
> I think the log files are created when there is a network error.
>
> We are not able to find any option that says the oracle client to log
in the
> file sqlnet.log or even switch it off.
>
> Does anybody know what is creating these logfiles and why the
logfiles do
> not reside in oracle directories, but in random directories on your
system?
>
> Can that logging be switched off?
>
> Regards remco
>
>

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