Oracle user has permission to write and plenty of free space but I could not find it in either udump or bdump... still scrating my head ... On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Dunbar, Norman <norman.dunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Morning, > >>> SQL> show parameter user_dump_dest >>> /qadon/oradata/qadon/udump > > Does the oracle user on the server have permissions to write to the > above location? I have had occasions where oracle couldn't even write to > the bdump because the Unix guys hadn't set up the server permissions > correctly! > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > > Norman Dunbar > Contract Senior Oracle DBA > CIS Engineering Services > Internal : 7 28 2051 > External : 0113 231 2051 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l