Re: Moving/compressing *.trc files.

On Jul 29, 12:46 pm, "Frank R." <tre...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 29, 12:34 pm, gazzag <gar...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Unix systems in the past, I've set up a cron job to compress/move
trace files over a certain age - for example, three days - with no
problems.

HTH

-g

Thanks for the response.

My OS is Linux RedHat and yes, I've also deleted old logfiles using
cron scripts. The main difference is tht in this case these trc files
are still reported as used (by "lsof" command), that's why I am afraid
of making some oracle background process crash if I suddenly wipe the
file out.

oracle won't crash when open files are deleted. Even after accidental
deletion, you can use the link in the /proc directory for recovery
(e.g. if you accidentally deleted a datafile). This is only for unix
systems which have a /proc directory.
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