On 09/18/2006 07:15:56 AM, David Sharples wrote: > set _trace_file_public = true should do that (does for the udump files > anyway) Speaking of the trace files, in 10.2 the size of the trace file can only be limited by an undocumented parameter named "_trace_file_size". As a result, I have few really monumental trace files in my BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST. Does anybody here know a reason for removing the completely legal parameter which used to define the maximum size of a trace file? -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l