Re: sending core dumps to dev/null

where does one start !

The cores should all be reported to support and iTars opened immediately

If it is coring then you should find out why and stop the offending process.

Can you post the alert log (or a subset of it - there may be some ORA-600 errors etc. in there. )

do show parameter background_dump_dest in sqlplus to find out where it is.

You should not be continuing to use Oracle if it is core dumping like that !

In answer to your question you might be able to redirect core_dump_dest parameter to /dev/null

but without a Unix

"Steven" <askme_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message news:arj1gq$j4aq3$1_at_ID-82797.news.dfncis.de...
> Hi,
>
> As I are using Oracle 8.1.7 we get a considerable amount of core dumps on
> our system filling up the disk space over a period of months. Eventually
> there is no space left which forces us to shutdown Oracle. Just removing
> the dumps does not release the space (because this is how UNIX works - or
> does someone know how to fix this?). So I was wondering if I can disable
> the core dumping function of oracle (probably not) or even send the dumps
to
> dev/null. Anyone tried this??
>
> I know it's a stupid idea to send the core dumps to dev/null. I don't
> really think I will do this it's more a theoretical question.
>
> Thank,
> Steve
>
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Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 11:28:46 CST