Hi Martin, I just have a clean up script for that :) then put it in cron.. find /oracle/oraprod/proddb/10.2.0/admin/PROD/adump -name "*.aud" -mtime +7 -exec ls -l {} \; > ${HOME_DIR}/logs/trace_and_logs/${DB_NAME}-adump-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M).log find /oracle/oraprod/proddb/10.2.0/admin/PROD/adump -name "*.aud" -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \; - Karl Arao http://karlarao.wordpress.com On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Martin Klier<Martin.Klier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear list, > > regardless of AUDIT_TRAIL and AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS both switched off, the > 10g and especially the 11g databases are creating lots of .aud files in > adump directory. Oracle-l thread > //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Oracle-102-auditing,3 describes that > as well. > > But how can I switch it off completely? I simply don't need it, and want to > avoid a periodic cleanup job or setting the dump directory to /dev/null. :) > > Thanks in advance, and best regards > -- > Mit freundlichem Gruß > > > Martin Klier > Senior Oracle Database Administrator > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme > Lindenweg 13, D-92552 Teunz > Tel.: +49 9671/9216-245 > Fax.: +49 9671/9216-112 > mailto: martin.klier@xxxxxxxxxx > www.klug-is.de > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Geschäftsführer: Johann Klug, Roman Sorgenfrei > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Teunz, USt-ID-Nr. DE175481608, > HRB Nr. 2037, Amtsgericht Amberg > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l