How to Clean up Trace and Audit Files for Multiple Homes

I’ve been working on a simple method to clean up audit and trace files for multiple homes.

Let’s see how grid and database homes can be found from oratab.

$ sort -u -t : -k 2,2 /etc/oratab | grep -v "^#" | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'
/u01/app/19.0.0.0/grid
/u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_2
/u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_3
/u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_4
/u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_6
/u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_7
/u02/app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome_2

Here is the cron job to remove trace and audit files from grid and database homes:

49 14 * * * find /u01/app/grid/diag/crs/*/crs/trace -name "*.tr?" -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
49 14 * * * find /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/audit -name "*.aud" -mtime +366 -exec rm -f {} \;
49 14 * * * find /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/log -name "*.tr?" -mtime +200 -exec rm -f {} \;
49 14 * * * find /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/log -name "cdmp*" -mtime +200 -exec rm -rf {} \;
49 14 * * * find /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/*/*/cdump -name "core*" -mtime +200 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Let’s take a look at what the * in the directory path represents.

ls -ld /u01/app/grid/diag/crs/*/crs/trace
* = hostname

Example:
$ ls -ld /u01/app/grid/diag/crs/*/crs/trace
drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 135168 Mar 26 18:40 /u01/app/grid/diag/crs/hostname/crs/trace

ls -ld /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/audit
*/* = version/dbhome

Example:
$ ls -ld /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall  614400 Mar 26 18:32 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_2/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall  253952 Mar 26 18:40 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_3/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall  294912 Mar 26 18:32 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_4/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall   94208 Mar 26 18:32 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_6/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall    4096 Mar  1 02:31 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_7/rdbms/audit
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 5783552 Mar 26 18:32 /u02/app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome_2/rdbms/audit

ls -ld /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/*/*/cdump
*/* = db_unique_name/db_name

Example:
$ ls -ld /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/*/*/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Sep  3  2020 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Sep  2  2020 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Sep 21  2020 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Feb 17 02:35 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Sep 21  2020 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Feb 18 21:51 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle asmadmin 4096 Sep 25 07:13 /u02/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db_unique_name/db_name/cdump

ls -l /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/log/*.tr?
*/* = version/dbhome

Example: 
$ ls -l /u02/app/oracle/product/*/*/rdbms/log/*.tr?
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 868 Feb 19 17:41 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_2/rdbms/log/*******2_ora_57506.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 868 Dec  4 18:06 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_2/rdbms/log/*******2_ora_66404.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 862 Mar 24 19:38 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_3/rdbms/log/*****2_ora_217755.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 869 Feb 18 21:51 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_4/rdbms/log/*****2_ora_351349.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 867 Feb 19 17:41 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_4/rdbms/log/*****2_ora_57519.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 866 Mar  1 20:01 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_6/rdbms/log/******2_ora_167170.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle asmadmin 831 Mar  1 02:31 /u02/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_7/rdbms/log/*****2_ora_314160.trc

That’s how I clean up old audit and trace files.

I hope this can help you, too.

If you have any questions or thoughts, please leave them in the comments.

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