Hi ,

Thanks. Please state what will the below command exactly do.



Kind regards,
Raj







"Dustin Hayden " <[Email address protected]
04/03/2007 04:10 PM

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If you are on a unix platform just use the following command

Cat /dev/null > alertlog

-----Original Message-----
From: kidambi
[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:47 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Purge the alert log file

Hi all,

Please suggest a mechanism by which we can purge the contents of alert
log
file as it has grown to more than 1gb.


Thanks.



Kind regards,
Raj


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