Question about entry in sqlnet.trc file

From: Ed Stevens <Ed_Stevens_at_nospam.noway.nohow>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:46:12 GMT
Message-ID: <3c506261.283647824@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>

Platform: 8.0.5 on NT 4

While digging through a sqlnet trace file (client side) I came across this block of entries

• PARAMETER SOURCE INFORMATION FOLLOWS --- Attempted load of system pfile source c:\oracle\ora81\network\admin\sqlnet.ora Parameter source loaded successfully

Attempted load of local pfile source g:\sql\sqlnet.ora Parameter source was not loaded

-> PARAMETER TABLE LOAD RESULTS FOLLOW <-
<snip>
--- PARAMETER SOURCE INFORMATION ENDS ---

• LOG CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FOLLOWS --- Log stream will be "g:\sql\sqlnet.log" Log stream validation not requested
• LOG CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ENDS ---

What caught my eye were the two references to "g:\sql\ . . ." My g: drive is mapped to a private folder on a departmental file server. The \sql directory is one I created to hold my mostly ad hoc sql files. There is no reference to this directory in my registry, the system or user PATH variables, nor in the SQLPATH variable. So why is sqlnet looking there for configuration files?

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Ed Stevens
(Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.)

Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 13:46:12 CST