Message-Id: <10520.107835@fatcity.com> From: Miguel Urosa Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:08:42 +0200 Subject: RE: Working, middle of night I think you never kill an Oracle process from Unix because surely it doing something in database like a rollback action or something like that. Any way I think that if you kill an Oracle process from Unix it doesn't die til finish its action. HTH > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Linda Hagedorn [SMTP:Linda@pets.com] > Enviado el: martes 6 de junio de 2000 14:16 > Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Asunto: RE: Working, middle of night > > This is regarding shutdown. After ALTER DATABASE RENAME 21 files, I > shutdown the database and am still waiting for it to finish (over 10 > minutes). I'd like it to come down faster, or be able to check that it > isn't hung up. I logged into another session and tried to SHUTDOWN > IMMEDIATE, but the command was not permitted as the database was in the > process of shutting down? > > Is there a way to see the status of a closing/shuting down instance? > Would > it be recommended to kill it from Unix? > > Thanks, LInda > -- > Author: Linda Hagedorn > INET: Linda@pets.com > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).