Thanks, fast. After days, you would think SR would have directed me at least to here? Anyway, any other comments or gotchas or practices are gladly accepted. I'll look closer, 1 year is not really what I wanted for all files... I got a log of trace file for instance. Sounds like I might have a different approach than the old one with unix commands and cron. Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: Ray Stell [mailto:stellr@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 3:10 PM To: Patterson, Joel Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: diag/rdbms alert files adr http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28319/adrci.htm#sthref1961 On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:02:27PM -0500, Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Does anyone keep say 30 days worth of data in the new 11g Architecture? > > Example: > find ${ORACLE_BASE}/diag/rdbms -name "* .trc" -type f -atime > -{NUMBER_KEEPDAYS} -exec ls -ltr {} \; (or xargs instead of exec) > > *.trc *.trm *.ams *.stg *.mif *.ir > > Could you just blanket remove all files, (or do the six file types > specifically)? I created an SR once for this and essentially the analyst > said yes. However, I'd like a second opinion as I am not sure of all the > file types yet. > > For instance in alert/log.xml appears to rotate at 1M, but is there any > cleanup to purge old files? > > Etc. wondering what the rest of the community is doing in this regard. > > > Joel Patterson > Database Administrator > 904 727-2546 > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l