Displaying System log Message Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

Displaying System log Message

In UNIX, a system failure will often precipitate an Oracle crash. Any hardware associated with disk, CPU or RAM may cause an Oracle database crash, and the UNIX system logs can be used to identify the initial cause of the Oracle failure.

The following commands are used to display the UNIX error logs. We need to note that you should regularly check the UNIX logs, even if there is not Oracle failure. These commands can also be useful for detecting transient disk I/O problems, memory failures, etc.

The above is an excerpt from the "Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook" by Oracle press, authored by Donald K. Burleson.

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