I am moving around some of my oracle directories and I moved
the admin folder which contained subdiretories which held some
alert files.

I have looked in init.ora and all the other config files but do not
see where this location is specified.

I am now getting errors about unable to open alert file blah...

This is Oracle 805 on Solaris.

Thanks,
Chuck
 
 

Answer:

You should look at either the config<SID>.ora or init<SID>.ora file in
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs for a parameter called background_dump_dest.  That will
usually specify where the log files go.