Bryan, I keep them for 15 days and then delete them. I use the following to clean them up: find $UDUMP_DIR -mtime +15 -print -exec rm {} \; The $UDUMP_DIR is an environmental pointing to the udump directory. I do the same thing in the Bdump directory (renaming the alert log with a date included in the file name). I keep files up to 30 days in this directory. I also clean up the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit directory and the $ORACLE_HOME/network/log directory in the same way. Change the number of days to suite your needs. Hope this helps. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Wells, Bryan [mailto:Bryan.Wells@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:30 AM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: All; I'm fairly new in the DBA realm. Can anyone tell me what a good standard to follow would be for the length of time to keep *.trc files. I'm moving these to a separate file system to free up some disk. Thanks, Bryan Wells -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/