RE: Rename alert log

Ron:

Yep. Do it every night at midnight. But...you can't just rename it! If you do a command like...

mv alert_SID.log alert_SID_010710.log
touch alert_SID.log

...Oracle will still append new entries to the old file, and your new alert_SID.log file will continue to have 0 bytes. What you need to do is...

cp -p alert_SID.log alert_SID_010710.log
> alert_SID.log

...This copies the file while maintaining the timestamp, and then nulls out the existing file. This should work on most flavors of UNIX.

HTH,
Mike

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Can the alert log be renamed while the database is up and running?

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