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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Deleting alert_<sid>.log while db is running?
Even if you "rm" the file, it will still be consuming disk space until the file is closed (when the DB comes down). The down side is that you will no longer be able to see any new entries.
I'm not sure what the results will be if you cp /dev/null alert_SID.log
HTH & HAND!
> Hi:
>
> I have a oracle db (oracle 8.0.5 on Sun Unix) whose alert_<sid>.log size is
> too large. I want to delete it.
>
> Can I just simply do "rm alert_<sid>.log" without shuting down the db,
> assuming there is no "writting" going on to the file at that moment? I
> usually do shutdown, delete alert log file, and then startup db again. But
> this is a 24*7 db and can not be shutdown.
>
> TIA.
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