Re: More baby steps into Ora on unix - what is this?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:35:06 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote:

>Ed Stevens wrote:
>
>> Platform; Oracle 8.1.7.0 EE on Solaris
>>
>> After shutting down the db's and stopping the listener,
>>
>> ps -ef|grep "ora" | grep -v grep
>>
>> yeilds several pages of the following:
>>
>> oracle 10676 1 0 07:42:12 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10721 1 0 07:42:13 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10727 1 0 07:42:14 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10670 1 0 07:42:12 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>>
>> the CMDM1240 is the name of one of two SIDs on this box. It is the
>> only one referenced in the several pages of output.
>
>I'm not sure what you are asking and if enough information is here from
>which to make a decision. But if Oracle and the listener are down and
>nothing else owed by Oracle is running:
>
>kill -9
>
>Daniel Morgan

Sorry, I forgot the question! And a little context.

I'm getting ready to apply the 8.1.7.4 patch to an 8.1.7.0 db. I've done it many times in the Windows world, but never in Unix. As a result, I'm not sure how to tell if everything that needs to be stopped is indeed stopped. I ran a "ps -ef | grep "ora_" and saw all the normal background processes. Then stopped the db's and then the listener, then ran this 'ps' command as a sanity check. So now I need to know what these processes might be, might it be safe to kill them, and if not, will they interfere with patch application? Received on Wed Mar 19 2003 - 10:59:23 CST