in your sqlnet.ora file add the following lines: TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT=admin TRACE_DIRECTORY_CLIENT=<location> # Where to put trace files TRACE_FILE_CLIENT=cli # Filename prefix TRACE_UNIQUE_CLIENT=TRUE # Append Process ID to filename -----Original Message----- From: Syed Jaffar Hussain [mailto:sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:12 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: client tracing Hi list, I want to put tracing from my machine as a clinet when I connec to the database server. Please give me the syntax for this. Rgds Jaffar