Ron:
Yep. Do it every night at midnight. But...you can't just rename it!
If you do a command like...
mv alert_SID.log alert_SID_010710.log
touch alert_SID.log
...Oracle will still append new entries to the old file, and your new
alert_SID.log file will continue to have 0 bytes. What you need to
do is...
cp -p alert_SID.log alert_SID_010710.log
> alert_SID.log
...This copies the file while maintaining the timestamp, and then nulls
out the existing file. This should work on most flavors of UNIX.
HTH,
Mike
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Can the alert log be renamed while the database is up and running?
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