VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Examples of Using the Command Line Interface Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
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Managing Log Files Using edgetmsg2
You can use the edgetmsg2 utility to manage message log files. You can use the edgetmsg2
utility to write a message to a log file or to the console, read the log file and print to the console, and
display the available log files.
Prerequisites
◆ You must be logged in as the Database Administrator or root to use this command.
Usage Notes
◆ The default log file for a database is located in the following directory:
/etc/vx/vxdba/logs/sfua_database.log
where database is the ORACLE_SID.
◆ By default, only messages with a severity greater than ERROR will be logged.
◆ The -s set_num option specifies the message catalogue set number. The default is 1.
◆ The -M msgid[:severity] option specifies the message ID and severity to be printed.
◆ The -f msg_catalog | logfile | log_directory option specifies the message
catalogue path, log file, or log directory.
◆ The -v severity | severity option is used to overwrite the minimum log severity or
to create a severity filter. The severity values are either 0-8 or 100-108.
◆ The -p option pauses the cursor at the end of a display message. By default, a line feed is
added to each display message. Use the -p option to indicates that no line feed is to be added.
◆ The -m value option is for internal use only. This option overwrites certain internal settings
for the edgetmsg2 utility.
◆ The -o list[,suppress_time] option displays the content of a log file. You can specify
,suppress_time to exclude time information in the utility output.
◆ The -o report[,no_archive] displays the available log files. You can specify
,no_archive to exclude log files from the utility output.
◆ The -t from_time[,to_time] reduced the length of the utility output by specifying the
time range to include. This option must be used together with the -o list option. Use the
following format: yyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS.
◆ The -S ORACLE_SID option specifies the ORACLE_SID for an Oracle database.
◆ “default format string” option specifies the C language printf() format string.
◆ [args] specifies arguments for the format string conversion characters.
◆ See the edgetmsg2(1M) manual page for more information.