Help with backup control file to trace

From: Andrew Au <andrewa1_at_home.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:28:52 GMT
Message-ID: <UP2K6.97323$HF.22179797@news4.rdc1.on.home.com>

Has anyone seen this problem before?
I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris. When I issue Alter database backup controlfile to trace

it is supposed to generate a trace file in the udump directory. But sometimes it does not create anything in the udump. It just executes the command but no trace file is generated. I checked the udump directory as specified in:

show parameters dump

so I am sure I am looking at the right directory. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. This is driving me crazy.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Please Email me as well as posting to this group. Received on Tue May 08 2001 - 22:28:52 CDT