ORACLE USER TRACE FILE PERMISSION

Hi Everyone

Please help me understand the following situation;

Under unix, the user trace files are generated in $RDBMS/udump directory. Oracle recomends that this directory should have 660 permission which precludes any developers from viewing those files.

The permission on the generated trace files also preclude developers ( usually not in DBA groyp ) from runing tkprof on thoses trace files.

The question is that is this designed to be like this or the permission on these files have been modified to preclude the developers ?
As a developer I would like to generate and develop my own trace file. How can I do that ?

An e-mail would be greatly apprecialted

Arif Zaman(azaman_at_ibm.net) Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 00:00:00 CST