where is the Oracle Event Log located?

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Where is the location of my oracle event log (on a default Linux installation)?

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select value from v$parameter where name = 'background_dump_dest'
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Using @cagcowboy's answer, a default Oracle XE installation on Linux writes out to:

/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/admin/XE/bdump