alert file not being updated

[penzk001]

Good morning,

I have encountered quite a strange problem, this morning. The alert file of the machine is not being update, in fact I have restarted the machine (AIX and Oracle 8i) however the alert is still not being updated.

Where can i look to solve the problem.

 

[JtheRipper]

Go into svrmgrl or sqlplus and do a:
"show parameter dump"
Make sure the &quot;background_dump_dest&quot; is where you think it is. Also look in your init<SID>.ora or config<SID>.ora files to see if you background_dump_dest parameter is set properly.

 

[penzk001]

The following are the parameters:

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------
background_core_dump string full
background_dump_dest string /ora_db/admin/ecustDT/bdump
core_dump_dest string /ora_db/admin/ecustDT/cdump
max_dump_file_size string UNLIMITED
shadow_core_dump string full
user_dump_dest string /ora_db/admin/ecustDT/udump

:ecustDT@/>ls -ltr /ora_db/admin/ecustDT/bdump/alert_ecustDT.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 1978368 Oct 22 01:46 /ora_db/admin/ecustDT/bdump/alert_ecustDT.log
:ecustDT@/>

:ecustDT@/>date
Wed Oct 29 09:47:48 NFT 2003
:ecustDT@/>

the instance was restarted today 29/10/2003 and the alert file was not updated to reflect want happened.

 

[penzk001]

Problem solved, the file was a linked (not using ln -s) to a file in a full filesystem so oracle could not write.

Thanks for your help