My guess would be that since it is a security risk, it's probably not a good a idea to make it a supported parameter.
Jared On Friday 27 December 2002 05:18, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: > O Oracle Guru's > Please tell us, why _trace_files_public is *STILL* an underscore > parameter?? > > Raj > ______________________________________________________ > > Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. > > Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com > > Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN > Inc. > > > QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art! > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:09 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > They were put there in 7.1 in order to comply with some security standard. > And their purpose is exactly to prevent a dba from logging in without being > monitored. It's in the 7.1 new features manual, as far as I remember. > That's also the version where it was suddenly not possible for the poor > deveopers to see their own tracefiles, except if they set > _trace_files_public=true. > > Mogens ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="ESPN_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).