Oracle shutdown on Sun

We reboot our systems every Sunday by using an Unix command "crontab". I decided to place Oracnle shutdown command inside crontab file. In order to access to this crontab file, you have to be the superuser. The command is "crontab -e"

In article 4152_at_engage.pko.dec.com, soley_at_trop32.enet.dec.com (Norm Soley) writes:
>In article <1992Oct22.155543.19668_at_icf.hrb.com> gml_at_icf.hrb.com (Gretchen M. Lenze) writes:
>>
>>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.
>
>--
> Norman Soley, Specialist, Digital Integrations Services, ITC District
> Digital Equipment of Canada soley_at_trooa.enet.dec.com
> Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect those of Digital
> Equipment Corporation or my cat Marge.
Received on Wed Oct 28 1992 - 19:21:29 CET