from SR: 'From my own experience, the ADRCI tool is only supposed to modify the XML-formated files. So doubt that it will purge plain-text logs kept for compatibility purposes. This is somehow confirmed in Bug #6800147 "ADRCI PURGE COMMAND DOESN'T WORK WHEN DELETE ALERTLOG USING AGE OPTION" closed as "Not a bug".' I'm guessing mv is the answer for listener.log. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l