Are you on HP-UX? If so, note 283579.1 might help On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Roger Xu <wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, but do you know why it went to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log/? > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:57 AM, kathryn axelrod <kat.axe@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Was the controlfile trace written successfully to > > /qaora/app/oracle/product/9/ > >> > >> rdbms/log? > > > >> background_dump_dest string > >> /qadon/oradata/qadon/bdump > >> max_dump_file_size string 10240 > >> shadow_core_dump string partial > >> user_dump_dest string > >> /qadon/oradata/qadon/udump >