Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: Mark.Powell@eds.com (Mark D Powell) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: the trace filename? Date: 12 Dec 2002 07:27:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2687bb95.0212120727.347f70e8@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.85.50.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1039706862 32269 127.0.0.1 (12 Dec 2002 15:27:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2002 15:27:42 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:169518 X-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:27:17 MST (news.easynews.com) mikharakiri@yahoo.com (Mikito Harakiri) wrote in message news:... > I'm figuring out how oracle names trace files on unix. For the very > first time it's easy: instance || '_ora_' || process || '.trc'. Both > instance and process can be easily queryied in the catalog views from > my session. > How the next trace file for the same background process is named? Normally the process id of the session that the background is tracing for is used as the middle node in the trace file name so you cannot predict in advance what it will be. HTH -- Mark D Powell --