If the directory isn't already there, you can just create it. On my systems, I set the init.ora parameter audit_file_dest to a directory like $ORACLE_BASE/admin/SID/audit. On 10, I've noticed that the default is $ORACLE_BASE/admin/SID/adump, so that might be a good place to start. I have audit_trail = DB on my systems, and then the audit records are in a SQL-queryable table called SYS.AUD$. There are a bunch of predefined views of this table (like DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL) that make it very easy to query. Cheers, Mike ________________________________ Michael P. Vergara Be good and you will be lonesome Oracle Database Administrator Mark Twain (951) 914-2000 (Voice) (951) 914-2990 (FAX) www.guidant.com <http://www.guidant.com/> ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chirag DBA Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:33 PM To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Audit Trail Hi, I want to enable simple auditing on my database. I have started with audit_trail = OS, but the audit directory in ORACLE_HOME/rdbms is not created. I have run the cataudit.sql. I know that oracle does basic auditing and puts them in rdbms/audit folder. This is windows on 9i. Any idea ??? Regards - Chirag