Stopping and Starting instances from batch (NT)

Good day,

I'm having some difficulty trying to do cold backups of my Oracle8 databases. I have two instances that I would like backed up. When I shut one down from my backup program, it shut down just fine, except that 1) the password I was using was now embedded in the backup log and 2) I needed to shut the other instance down, too. So I moved the command to a Windows NT .CMD file and have discovered that, even though the shut down log indicates that the instance was shut down, the instance remains open and my backup complains that the files are in use. I was trying to use the orashut.bat file that is in my database folder. The batch file describes how it is called from the NT service manager so I coded my file with two calls to this batch file properly encoded. Indeed, shutting down from the command line seems to work. Any ideas on how I can rework my command file to actually shut down the instances?

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Ken Rachynski
Database Analyst
krachyn_at_cadvision.com
<http://www.cadvision.com/krachyn>
ICQ: 3113514 Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 22:37:22 CST