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On Monday 15 October 2001 07:26, Rick Wessman wrote:
> Those directories are created when an Oracle process dumps core.
> "99999" is the ID of the process.
>
> I have no idea why the directories would be empty, though. Maybe you
> ran out of disk space. Another possibility is that the dbs directory
> is not owned by Oracle. Since programs that are setuid cannot dump
> core in directories which they do not own, that could cause the
> problem.
>
> Take a look in your log directory. If there are trace files with the
> same PID's, then the processes crashed but could dump core.
Thanks for your replly. I thought they must be core files in the traditional sense, but was baffled because they were empty. I'll follow through on your suggestions. Received on Mon Oct 15 2001 - 18:04:16 CDT
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