Oracle Help (65GB file!!!)

[ajbrun]

A few days ago, I was surprised to see my hard drive getting full as windows said it was below the 15% recommended space to defrag it. It turns out that it was right .

After a bit of searching through my PC, I found that my oracle folder was using the most space by a long way. I followed the large folder sizes until I came here:

C:\oracle\ora92\Apache\Apache\logs

In that folder, there are 4 files, each with no file extension:

access_log - 6KB
ssl_engine_log - 14KB
ssl_request_log - 0KB
error_log - 68,352,056KB (65.1GB)

Is it safe to delete the error_log file? I'm assuming it is since it's only an error log, but I thought I'd best ask first just incase since it has to be permanently deleted.

I've tried opening the file in both notepad and wordpad, but both (unsuprisingly) says it's too big. I'm therefore assuming (but can't prove as I can't open the file) that it's the same error over and over again that it's recording, and that the file will constantly grow. Does anyone know of a way to open the file to look at it before deletion, or should I just delete it anyway?

Thanks .

EDIT - I just checked it again, and the file in question seems to have grown by another KB.

[Trippledence]

I love that. You know when you where asking what you should put on your new HD, how about that. Hehe

Just delete it. Whats the worse that can happen?

[Ramedge]

Its only an error log - it will recreate the error log file if any other errors turn up!

You must of left Orcale running on your computer for ages! and you must of noticed your hard drive constantly doing stuff.

65gb hehe

delete......

[smtkr]

If the error log is that large, doesn't that signal some other underlying problem? It takes a long time to accumulate that many error messages in a normal environment.

[Nemeliza]

65GB of errors LOL

What are you trying to use oracle for...and more importantly, does it work?

As for the error log, open it. i would love to see what windows would say to a 65GB txt file!

Otherwise just delete it.

[ajbrun]

Like I said, I tried opening it, but notepad said it was too big, and wordpad gave some sort of an error. I also tried openoffice, but that took too long thinking about it, so I didn't bother.

It's now been deleted.

My plan now is too see if it comes back, if/when it does, see what the error is and try and fix it.

I'm using oracle for uni.

[Stoo]

it won't open it, it'll say that it's too big and to use something else..

If it did open it, it'd try to cache it all to ram, and I don't think anyone on here has a system with even a 10th of that

best to use something like editplus, or even a hex editor, with a "read from disk" mode

[smtkr]

yeah, I have a program called ultraedit that can open files that large (as far as I know--I've never actually found a file over 3 MB)

[ikonia]

its actually nothing to do with Oracle database, its a web server component of Oracle. Oracle comes bundled with a hacked version of apache that can be used for web interaction.
shut the web component down, delete the logs as they are just access logs and you'll be fine.