String 

AUDIT_TRAIL = {NONE | FALSE | DB | TRUE | OS} 

Static 

NONE 

AUDIT_TRAIL enables or disables the automatic writing of rows to the audit trail.  

• NONE or FALSE: Audit records are not written.

• OS: enables system-wide auditing and causes audited records to be written to the operating system's audit trail.

• DB or TRUE: enables system-wide auditing and causes audited records to be written to the database audit trail (the SYS.AUD$ table).

You can use the SQL statements AUDIT sql_statements and AUDIT schema_objects to set auditing options regardless of the setting of this parameter.

See Also: Oracle8i Administrator's Guide.