Re: O8 - Can't shutdown or change INIT Settings...

John:

Try connecting as INTERNAL. SYSTEM can't normally do a shutdown.

Good luck,
Dave

John Townes wrote in message <6igl75$imp$1_at_s3000-01.magna.com.au>...
>G'Day people,
>
>I have a very simple problem that I just can't seem to get around.
>
>I have an Oracle 8.03 server running on NT4. It all works as expected,
>except for one problem: the only way I can shut the instance down is to
shut
>down the actual machine.
>
>When I log into the Instance Manager as system, the shutdown options are
>grayed out. I have given system all roles and all priv's too, but just
can't
>seem to work this one out.
>
>The problem came to light while trying to set the Max Processes setting in
>the INIT settings tab, which requires a DB restart, but not having the
>priv's, I'm hosed.
>
>If anyone can provide that shining ray of guidance, I would be gratefull.
>
>John Townes
>College of Law,
>Sydney, Australia
>
>
Received on Sat May 02 1998 - 23:12:08 CDT