Message-Id: <10520.107820@fatcity.com>
From: Linda Hagedorn <Linda@pets.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 04:09:50 -0700 
Subject: 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