Re: Trying to script the shutdown of a secured 8i listener

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:13:20 +0100
Message-ID: <43c8dcd1$0$13891$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

"BD" <bobby_dread_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1137181338.745819.152090_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >Why do you need to shutdown the listener
>
> It's just to prevent connection attempts during the backup window.
>

But they can't connect since the database is down, right (cold backup) ? So what's the difference between receiving an error message because the listener is down and one because the instance is down ? Anyone trying to connect will receive an error message and the application should catch this properly.

Matthias Received on Sat Jan 14 2006 - 05:13:20 CST