Re: auditing disabled still getting aud files

From: Anurag Varma <avoracle_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <167b8bb0-c594-431c-b5a9-a18af66c78b0@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


On Mar 17, 9:28 am, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> 10.2.0.2 EE aix 5.2 64 bit. non rac, no asm
>
> We don't have auditing turned on for any of our databases but yet we
> are getting a bunch of .aud files which look like they are all
> reporting sysdba connections in our $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit
> directory. I've found several bugs related to this on metalink but no
> resolutions. Bug # 4001394, 5880268, 4296219. Has anyone found a way
> around this other than just going back behind oracle and cleaning them
> up? I'd like to prevent the creation of them altogether as I'm sure
> there is some overhead with creating them. It appears as though this
> has been happening since at least 9.2.0.5.

Oracle has some minimal mandatory auditing on... You cannot turn this off and it is NOT a bug.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14266/auditing.htm#sthref1316

Anurag Received on Mon Mar 17 2008 - 11:25:38 CDT

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