From: "Orlando" <orlandosc@hotmail.comREMOVE>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Error writing to alert log
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:29:19 -0000
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Hi there,

No I thought of that, sadly not the cause. This is getting more frustrating
by the day.

Tnx
Orlando

"Carla Ghekière" <carla.ghekiere@clt.kuleuven.ac.be> words of wisdom were:
> Maybe you have two different parameter files (INIT<SID>.ORA) and now a
> second one is started?
>
> > Have a small problem that I need to get to the bottom of.
> >
> > Ever since I had to restart my server last week, no events have been
 written
> > to the alert log, well that's not true they are but Oracle is trying to
> > write them to an alert log in a strange location. That being
> >
> > ../../oracle/admin/admin/<db_name>/bdump/alert_<dbname>.log N.B. the
 extra
> > admin directory.
> >
> > The background_dump_dest points to the correct location in init.ora as
 does
> > $ORACLE_BASE. System is Unixware 7.1.1 running Oracle 8.1.6.
> >
> > VMTIA
> > Orlando Scott-Cowley
> >
> >
>
>