Re: Oracle shutdown on Sun

In article <1992Oct22.155543.19668_at_icf.hrb.com> gml_at_icf.hrb.com (Gretchen M. Lenze) writes:
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>Does anyone know a graceful means of shutting down the ORACLE RDBMS under
>SunOS? Documentation suggests running dbshut utility from the shutdown5
>file, but the shutdown5 file does not exist on our system.

Generally (a dangerous word to start any statement with) bsdish systems like SunOS (and ULTRIX and Sequent Dynix 3.X) have a binary shutdown file. It sends a signal (SIGTERM I think) to everything and then waits some number of seconds for everything to exit gracefully then starts the actual shutdown. The problem with this is that the wait time is not actually long enough for things like Oracle to reliably finish a graceful shutdown so they are coded to ignore the signal.

SVRish systems have a shell script for shutdown.

So rename /etc/shutdown to something else and create an /etc/shutdown script file that does your Oracle shutdown then calls the renamed binary file.

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