You need to determine why you are getting core dumps. Don't fight symptoms,
but remove the cause.
Deleting files from Unix doesn't release space? I've never come across a
Unix system that works like that.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"Steven" <askme_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:arj1gq$j4aq3$1_at_ID-82797.news.dfncis.de...
> Hi,
>
> As I are using Oracle 8.1.7 we get a considerable amount of core dumps on
> our system filling up the disk space over a period of months. Eventually
> there is no space left which forces us to shutdown Oracle. Just removing
> the dumps does not release the space (because this is how UNIX works - or
> does someone know how to fix this?). So I was wondering if I can disable
> the core dumping function of oracle (probably not) or even send the dumps
to
> dev/null. Anyone tried this??
>
> I know it's a stupid idea to send the core dumps to dev/null. I don't
> really think I will do this it's more a theoretical question.
>
> Thank,
> Steve
>
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Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 11:12:38 CST
