While analysing the problem with ExaWatcher not being able to start, I found quite nasty side effect of a workaround implemented in recent versions of this useful tool. In fact, you will hit it only on Exadata X7 where you had previously implemented another workaround described in Disable lsof on Exadata Cloud to avoid reboot issues (Doc ID 2595022.1) MOS note.
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Recently I’ve came across a nice tool provided by Oracle named purgeLogs, so I would like to shortly blog about it for reference (also for me). As the name suggests it is meant to be used for cleaning up log and trace files. Unfortunately, it is not possible to do any kind of archiving and/or compressing those files, but still, having easy-to-use tool to quickly delete files, which probably aren’t treated by already existing solutions rotating/archiving/deleting logs is very helpful.
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