Re: a lot of aud files in udump

Mark Z. wrote:
>
> Hi, Everyone, we are using 8.1.7.2 on solaris 2.6, recently we got a lot
> of aud file at our /udump directory. The file is like this:
> Audit file /opt2/oracle/product/8.1.7/admin/test/udump/ora_897.aud
> Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning option
> JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7
> System name: SunOS
> Node name: mary
> Release: 5.7
> Version: Generic_106541-18
> Machine: sun4u
> Instance name: test
> Redo thread mounted by this instance: 0 <none>
> Oracle process number: 2
> Unix process pid: 897, image: oracle_at_mary (TNS V1-V3)
>
> Wed Jan 16 11:38:58 2002
> ACTION : 'connect ' OSPRIV : DBA
> CLIENT USER: ora817
> CLIENT TERMINAL: pts/1
> STATUS: SUCCEEDED ( 0 )
>
> What are these files? Is there something I should be alarmed or just
> set up a crontable job to remove all the aud files?
>
> Thanks

Even if auditing is not enabled, an audit record will be created when you connect as sysdba (eg connect internal).

hth
connor

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