how to set thread number on "alert file"

In my company Senior DBAs has one script through which he comes to know, when to check alert file. What I understand that it is shell script through which he determines the size of alert file and more information about that. But how I don't understand. As I am working as Junior Oracle DBA, I don't have privs to see the coding. If anyone else is using this kind of script then pls.............. tell me what is there in that script. Received on Sat Jun 10 2006 - 05:51:01 CDT