Alert Log gets written to two different locations in 11g
Oracle 11.2 logs into two different alert.log files. Sometimes in
a) ~oracle/product/11.2.0/log/diag/rdbms/lola/LOLA/trace/
Instance terminated by USER, pid = 13953
Mon Jun 27 14:18:03 2011
Instance shutdown complete
b) ~oracle/diag/rdbms/lola/LOLA/trace/
Mon Jun 27 16:13:13 2011
Archived Log entry 7 added for thread 1 sequence 68 ID
0x8d24c110 dest 1:
Archived Log entry 8 added for thread 1 sequence 68 ID
0x8d24c110 dest 2:
SQL> select * from v$diag_info ;
INST_ID NAME
---------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Diag Enabled
TRUE
1 ADR Base
/app/oracle
1 ADR Home
/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/lola/LOLA
1 Diag Trace
/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/lola/LOLA/trace
1 Diag Alert