But does it shows me the logs from previous months?.. We had some problems with the SAN, and I need to prepare a report with the times and dates the DB had shutdown due to these problems. Isabel Bedoya Gómez Gestión de Tecnología Tel. 2307500 ext: 4077 "David Sharples" <davidsharples@gm ail.com> Para "crcbedoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 18/10/2006 11:42 <crcbedoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Asunto Re: Logs in Unix the database alert log will show if it had been shutdown due to a hardware error, if it had completely crashed without shuttign down - then no - unix wont display specific errors about specific apps On 18/10/06, crcbedoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <crcbedoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: Exactly "David Sharples" < davidsharples@ gmail.com> Para 18/10/2006 crcbedoy@proteccion. 11:39 com.co cc oracle-l < oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxx rg> Asunto Re: Logs in Unix what do you mean by an 'idle' status - do you mean if the database had shutdown