Just a quick little Unix tip:
Over the Christmas/New Year’s holidays one of my application’s audit file destination started filling up causing the database to stop future logons and generate page outs etc. The root cause appeared to be a script running on an application server that for some unknown reason was attempting to logon and failing about 2000 times a minute. This generated about the same number of audit files filling the mount point and/or exceeding the inodes. The regular housekeeping script was unable to clean up the files as it was executing the command similar to:
rm *_ora_3*_20181231*.aud
This would result in the error:
-ksh: rm: /bin/rm: cannot execute [Argument list too long]
This being the holiday season, we were unable to find a contact to either stop or fix the application script. After some Google searches, I was able to rapidly delete the files with the below command:
find /app/oracle/admin/instance1/adump -maxdepth 1 -name "*.aud" -print0 | xargs -0 rm