One of theese files will be created each time you logon as "/as sysdba " Could be rman or other stuff. Metalink, How to Audit Connect AS SYSDBA Using Oracle Server (Doc ID 103964.1): "The administrative user connections are always audited regardless of the init.ora parameter audit_trail." Regards, Jan ________________________________ Von: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. November 2009 14:54 An: Job Miller Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: Re: About 1.8 million log files in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit SQL> select * from v$diag_info; INST_ID NAME ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VALUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 1 Diag Enabled TRUE 1 ADR Base /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest 1 ADR Home /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas INST_ID NAME ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VALUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 1 Diag Trace /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/trace 1 Diag Alert /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/alert 1 Diag Incident /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/incide nt INST_ID NAME ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VALUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 1 Diag Cdump /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/cdump 1 Health Monitor /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/hm 1 Default Trace File /d20/oracle/product/mbasdb/11.1.0/admin/dest/diag/rdbms/mbas/mbas/trace/ mbas_ora _23961.trc INST_ID NAME ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VALUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 1 Active Problem Count 8 1 Active Incident Count 81 11 rows selected. On Nov 9, 2009 11:51am, Job Miller <jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are these ADR files? > > > > that path doesn't fit the ADR structure. > > > > what does select * from v$diag_info show? > > > > ADR should be: > > > > $ORACLE_BASE/diag/product_type/product_id/instance_id