Dear list, regardless of AUDIT_TRAIL and AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS both switched off, the 10g and especially the 11g databases are creating lots of .aud files in adump directory. Oracle-l thread //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Oracle-102-auditing,3 describes that as well. But how can I switch it off completely? I simply don't need it, and want to avoid a periodic cleanup job or setting the dump directory to /dev/null. :) Thanks in advance, and best regards -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Martin Klier Senior Oracle Database Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme Lindenweg 13, D-92552 Teunz Tel.: +49 9671/9216-245 Fax.: +49 9671/9216-112 mailto: martin.klier@xxxxxxxxxx www.klug-is.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Johann Klug, Roman Sorgenfrei Sitz der Gesellschaft: Teunz, USt-ID-Nr. DE175481608, HRB Nr. 2037, Amtsgericht Amberg -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l