If there is not an alert_<sid>.log oracle will create one as long as the
udump dest is present.
Ruth
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> hi list
>
> we had a major outage at exodus lastnight. blew up both machines with 6
> production databases. SAs have brought most of the disks back up but not
> $ORACLE_BASE (or $ORACLE_HOME). how can our databases be up if the
> alert.log(s) live on the unmounted disks? doesn't an oracle database have
> to be able to write to alert.log in order to start?
>
> our databases are up. i've checked all the processes which are running (ps
> -ef | grep ora), and i'm able to connect to all 6 remotely (just not
> locally since the binaries for sqlplus and svrmgrl also live on those
> unmounted disks). we are running 8.1.6 on solaris.
>
> thanks,
> kris
>
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