Re: Interesting Christmas Eve listener problem

Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 26/12/2006 6:35 AM:

> the file descriptors, wrote a meaningless error messages and died. Would it be too much to kindly ask
> Oracle to add a @#$%! signal handler telling me that I have to clean up the @#$%! log file? I hate debugging
> on Christmas Eve!

I hear ye! Indeed there is a lack
of this type of maintenance signal from
the part of Oracle...

> Of course, after a delicate application of "rm -f" command on the listener.log, listener started working
> like a charm. RMAN catalog was created in 2003 and listener was up, all this time.

Two words:
"log rotation"

and for the listener, there is even a nice command to make it start writing a new log file: no need to shutdown and restart listener!

> Happy holidays to everybody!

And to you as well.

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Cheers
Nuno Souto
dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
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