I notice that my Oracle instances (8.1.7.4/ AIX 5.2) create audit files every time anyone connects as SYSDBA or INTERNAL. I do not have the AUDIT_TRAIL parameter set in the init.ora files and none of the audit views show any activitied being audited. Is it simply the default behavior of the database to record this information or this there another parameter somewhere which is telling the instance to do this? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l