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From: Doug Cowles <dcowles@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: second alertfile ?
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 20:40:23 -0400
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The last poster who had this problem had recently changed file permissions
somewhere,
so Oracle started an alert log in a new place..

- Dc.

robie wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I noticed three core_xxx directories in the homedir of oracle-user. I looked
> at the $ORACLE_BASE/admin/bdump/alert_sid.log file, there were no entries
> about these core dumps.
> Then I found a sid_ora_xxx.trc file in the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log directory
> and in the same dir there was a second alert_sid.log file.
> This new alert_file only contains three messages about three trace_files
> (ora-7445).
> The alert file in the oracle_base contains all the other messages
> (shutdown,startup,log-switches etc).
>
> Why does oracle put these messages in this directory?
>
> Sun Solaris
> RDBMS 7.3.4.4
>
> Thank you,
> Rob.