More importantly, "works on all flavors of linux I've tried" is a far cry from "portable". The majority of desktop Unix systems are not linux, but OS X. There are plenty of servers running other BSD flavors. And lots of old machines running commercial *nixes or OpenSolaris. Not to m...
On Unix platforms, Oracle will typically set permissions so that only the oracle user and members of the dba Unix group can read the trace files. If you want anybody with a Unix login to be able to read the trace files, then you should set the following undocumented (but supported) initi...