It must be a 'cat' not 'cp'.
See this paper:
www.wolfenet.com/~jeremiah/241.pdf
There is a subtle difference between the two but I
don't know what it is!
-Matt
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> Hi Matt,
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> If I remember correctly, I did use 'cp /dev/null
> listener.log' as my last straw
> to get my listner log regenerated, but without
> success.
>
> My question is : what is the difference between 'cp
> /dev/null listener.log' and
> 'cat /dev/null > listener.log' ?
>
> I know I still have lots to learn...unix, NT, oracle
> 8i, 9i, ....20i
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eveleen
>
>
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Matthew Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
> 02/14/2001 09:11:49 AM
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> Message - From: Matthew Bixler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/14/2001 03:11
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> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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> cc: (bcc: Eveleen Xu/NNIB/NNNG)
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> Subject: Re: listner.log cannot be generated
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> After moving and compressing the listener.log file
> do
> a
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> cat /dev/null > listener.log
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> This will start a new listener.log with a zero size
> and will still be written to without starting the
> listener.
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> -Matt
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> > I ran into the same problem a few days back. The
> > listener.log was created
> > once I stopped and restarted the listener.
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> > Ana Choto
> > American University
> > Washington DC
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> > com Subject:
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> > 02/13/01
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> > 03:29 PM
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> > ORACLE-L
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> > Hi list,
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> > About a month ago, I moved and compressed
> > listener.log file to a different
> > directory because
> > this file accumulated to a huge size over past
> year
> > or two.
> >
> > Since that point, nothing is able to write to
> > listenr.log file even though
> > i did
> > not change an writing permission
> > of this file and its parent directory. The file
> size
> > is keeping 0 over one
> > month
> > period. I do not know how to make
> > this file writeable.
> >
> > I issued 'lsnrctl status command' to check the
> > destination of this file:
> >
> > Listener Parameter File
> >
>
/u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/network/admin/listener.ora
> > Listener Log File
> >
>
/u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/network/log/listener.log
> > Services Summary...
> > extproc has 1 service handler(s)
> > idms has 1 service handler(s)
> > orac has 3 service handler(s)
> > tsp has 1 service handler(s)
> > vign has 2 service handler(s)
> > The command completed successfully
> >
> > Then I go to corresponding directory and find the
> > size of this file is 0.
> >
> >
> > nnidb1:/export/home/oracle@orac> cd
> > /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/network/log
> >
>
nnidb1:/u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/network/log@orac>
> > ls -laF
> > total 4488
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle dba 512 Jan 23
> > 09:51 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x 16 oracle dba 512 May 13
> > 1999 ../
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 512 Jan 5
> > 10:09 2000/
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 512 Jan 5
> > 09:57 2001/
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 5
> > 14:24 listener.log
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle dba 2278569 Jan 23
> > 09:55 sqlnet.log
> >
> >
> > Will someone in the list enlight me?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eveleen
> >
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