Re: suspicious standard Oracle Linux start/stop script

> > Why shut them down manually? A properly configured script can do a fine
> > enough job without requiring human intervention.
>
> And predicting all kind of problem cases such as shutdown immediate hanging,
> unable to connect as sysdba, even crashes, etc?

If I'm worried about SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE hanging, then my script does a SHUTDOWN ABORT, followed by a STARTUP RESTRICT, and then a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE. No problems...

Why would I be unable to connect as SYSDBA?

And in the case of a crash, who has time to manually shutdown a database?

Cheers,
Brian

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