Oracle 9i, utl_file_dir and CREATE DIRECTORY - problematic

[saurabhg29]

alter system set utl_file_dir =* scope=spfile;

reboot the instance;
and try to run the procedure with full path to the log file.

CREATE DIRECTORY utl_file_logs AS '/path/to/logdir'#

you can't have your directory accesed.oracle docs say's
The file location must be an accessible directory, as defined in the instance's initialization parameter UTL_FILE_DIR.