Renaming / deleting listener.log and alert log
- From: "Paul Vincent" <Paul.Vincent@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:35:05 +0100
OK folks - please help me out with this old chestnut:
When the listener log, and the database alert log, start to reach
unwieldy sizes, it's time to either delete the log, or - better - rename
it, so that Oracle will start a fresh one. But the question of whether
this can be done "on the fly", whilst the listener or database
(respectively) are still running, or whether you have to stop the
listener or shutdown the database instance before doing so, seems to
depend on which version of Oracle and which operating system are
running.
So, by way of clarification, can anyone give a definitive answer to
these questions:
Is it safe to delete or rename the listener log file whilst the listener
is still running, for Oracle 8i under Windows 2000 Server? And how about
deleting/renaming the database alert log file without shutting down the
instance, under the same configuration (8i, Windows 2k)?
Same question for Oracle 9i under Win2k ?
Same question for Oracle 8i under Solaris?
Same question for Oracle 9i under Solaris?
If there's a clear consensus on these answers, this would be a handy FAQ
answer!
Regards,
Paul
Paul Vincent
DBA
UCE Birmingham
paul.vincent@xxxxxxxxx
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