I don't find the original thread anymore, where someone asked whether there's a tail -f available for Windows. Such command exists in the windows resource kit as well: C:\oracle\admin\WIN92\bdump>"c:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\tail" -f alert_win92.log Completed: alter database open Wed May 20 23:17:23 2009 Restarting dead background process QMN0 QMN0 started with pid=9, OS id=2116 Thu May 21 23:36:36 2009 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 52 Current log# 3 seq# 52 mem# 0: C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\WIN92\REDO03.LOG Sat May 23 00:42:12 2009 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 53 Current log# 1 seq# 53 mem# 0: C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\WIN92\REDO01.LOG Sat May 23 19:22:19 2009 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 54 Current log# 2 seq# 54 mem# 0: C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\WIN92\REDO02.LOG ^C -- Regards, Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l