Re: How do you check for alert log file for the latest error ?

Hi ,

Cant we check the latest error of the alert log files by

 tail -f alert.log

I think we can continously get the latest error . If I am wrong then do please correct me.

Thanks

On 11/15/06, Barbara Baker <barb.baker_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anand:
> My favorite is still "chk_oerr" on Tim Gorman's web site (www.evdbt.com)
> It takes a bit of setup, but does everything! It keeps a file with the
> last line previously checked so it only looks at new entries.
>
> chk_oerr.sh (ASCII text file – 11Kb) UNIX Korn-shell script which is
> intended to called from the UNIX *cron *perhaps once per day or a couple
> times per week. It sends email to the configured email accounts (note the
> need for files named ".dbapage" and ".dbamail" in the "$HOME" directory of
> the owning UNIX account) when it detects newly-logged ORA- error messages in
> the "alert.log" file or in the ".trc" files in the BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST or
> USER_DUMP_DEST directories. Also reports newly generated "core" files in
> the CORE_DUMP_DEST.
>
> HTH!
> Barb
>
>
>
> On 11/15/06, Anand <shastry17_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Hi all,
> >
> >
> > How do you check for alert log file for the latest error ?*
> >
> > *Linux command to remove files in the log direcotory,in such a way that
> > the last 15 days fills must exist but purge the remaining files? *
> >
> > *What if the alert log file has been deleted by some script?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Anand
> > *
> >
>
>

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