Re: login/exit problems

Thanks to all,

It was indeed the process.dat file associated with oratrace growing larger than it should.

Tony

> Hallas John wrote:
>
> There was a problem with Oracle Trace being set in some V7 instances.
> A couple of files grew quite large.
> STOP PRESS just checked on Metalink and found note 45482.1
> This suggest checking the $ORACLE_HOME/otrace/admin directory for a
> file process.dat and see if it growing (recently written to).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: afa2 [mailto:afa2_at_york.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 January 2002 19:20
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: login/exit problems
>
> We have an Oracle 7.3.4 database that has been stable for a number of
> years but has started having problems during logon and exit with both
> sqlplus and remote logins. It hangs for up to a minute before
> connecting
> to Oracle server after you get
>
> $ sqlplus ***/***
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 3.3.4.0.1 - Production on Tue Jan 8 19:06:28 2002
>
> Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1996. All rights reserved.
>
> <hangs here>
>
> and similarly following an exit from Oracle server after disconnecting
>
> Disconnected from Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.4.0.1 - Production
> With the distributed, replication, parallel query and Spatial Data
> options PL/SQL Release 2.3.4.0.0 - Production
>
> <hangs here>
>
> before returning to OS command line prompt
>
> lsnrctl, tnsping, etc suggest port is okay. Stopping and restarting
> database make no difference. Any advice or help will be much
> appreciated.
>
> Tony
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