No way to stop it. You'll have to clean them up manually ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PRAVEEN KC Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 5:42 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: any work-around to turn off .aud files generation? hi I'm running oracle apps on 10g and have the default "audit_sys_operations=FALSE". I 'm aware that "Connections to the instance with administrator privileges" generates the .aud files. Just curious to know if there is any work-around to bypass this (at least would like to do on the development instances). Thanks in advance. Regards, Praveen