How to trim the Oracle listener log in Unix/Linux
Want to trim your Oracle listener log? Oracle expert Brian Peasland explains how to do so in Unix/Linux servers without bouncing the listener.
How do I trim the Oracle listener log? My database is 24*7 and if I move the file I have to bounce the listener.
In Unix/Linux servers, I do the following:
cp listener.log listener_copy.log
cp /dev/null listener.log
The above makes a copy of the listener log and then overwrites the log with an empty file, thus zeroing out the log's contents. If you do not need the old copy, you can remove it, or skip the first copy command above.
