Jared, On windows, the audit trace information is written to Event Viewer. See if you can find the audit traces written to Event viewer. HTH Thanks Chandra From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:29 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: audit_sys_operations apparently not working Platform: Windows 23k Server SP2 64bit Oracle: 10.2.0.4 EE I have two databases for which both audit_file_dest and audit_sys_operations are set. NAME VALUE VAL? MOD? MOD? ------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ---- ---- ---- audit_file_dest D:\ORACLE\ORCL\102\RDBMS\AUDIT Y N D audit_sys_operations TRUE N N N audit_trail DB N N N 3 rows selected. Yet I don't find any audit files in audit_file_dest. Obvious possible problems: permissions - Local System user runs the Oracle service, and has full control of the directory full file system - it is not full, 40G free Even without audit_sys_operations=true, audit logs showing logons by SYS/SYSDBA should appear in the audit_file_dest directory. Checking a linux 10.2.0.4 database, I find that it works as expected. Before OYASR (Opening Yet Another Service Request) I thought it would be a good idea to ask here first. For low priority issues, Oracle-L is usually faster. :) So, is there something I am missing, or is it just broke on Windows? I did search MetaLink^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMy Oracle Support, but didn't find anything useful. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist