Unix trace

Question

Hi Guru's.
I have some background unix program's which i run manually from the unix or schedule them in cron, i need to know is there a way to create a unix system trace as like we create performance TKPROF trace.
Regards,
MB

Answer 1

As I mentioned you can enable trace in your code as well using following
ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS '10053 TRACE NAME CONTEXT FOREVER, LEVEL 12';
ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS '10046 TRACE NAME CONTEXT FOREVER, LEVEL 12';
You can use some work-around, like use one parameter in procedure or shell script that will tell code to enable trace or not i.e. if trace need to enable run above command otherwise skip above command. OR you can write shell/perl script wrapper.
OR you can set trace manually(or in login trigger) as well using following
For trace on
exec dbms_system.SET_EV(SID,SERIAL#,10046,12,'');
For trace off
exec dbms_system.SET_EV(SID,SERIAL#,10046,0,'');
Virag
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