RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

Here's how we do it:
We have 2 cron jobs, one of which runs 10 minutes after the first.  

The first does a shutdown immediate. The second checks if oracle is running and, if so, does a shutdown abort.

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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:24 PM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pardee, Roy E [ mailto:roy.e.pardee_at_lmco.com
<mailto:roy.e.pardee_at_lmco.com> ]
>
> I would
> have guessed
> that optimally, you'd try immediate first & then abort if
> immediate takes
> too long.

I've read that some people on the list have done this. I am curious as to how this is implemented.
How long is too long? And how is this coded? I'm trying to think how you would write this with shell scripts for example.

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