normally there can be two reasons firstly giving a dump file destination=20 secondly - hardly dare say - a link? never experienced that before on a dozen of suns/oracles kr mr >>> roon987@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/03 2:48 >>> 9.2.0.4 on HP 11.11 I've got the following paramter set in the database =20 SQL> show parameter user_dump_NAME TYPE = VALUE------------------------------------ ----------- -----------------= -------------user_dump_dest string /app/oracle/a= dmin/fusepw03/udump But it's writing the trace files to ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/l= og Any ideas as to why this is the case. TIA BTW Am also using a spfile. = =20 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! = Download Messenger Now ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/=20 FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html=20 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------