Re: What causes "shutdown immediate" to fail?

In article <C8qKDq.IuG_at_qus102.qld.tne.oz.au> logier_at_qus102.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie) writes:
>karell_at_cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell) writes:
>
>>If "shutdown immediate" fails (just hangs) does it mean
>>that there are oracle processes running that ignore
>>signals? Are there any negative sideeffects on using
>>"shutdown abort"?
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>
>Under Unix, Shutdown Immediate will fail if it is used
>
>"sqldba shutdown immediate"
>
>For some reason, if you enter sqldba, then give the shutdown command
>it will work more reliably. This can be done in shell scripts via
>the "Here is" constructs.
>

Or the following from the prompt should work

sqldba command='shutdown immediate'

the problem with "sqldba shutdown immediate" is that only shutdown gets passed to sqldba correctly so he thinks you are doing a normal shutdown and waits for users to logout.

Why they cann't parse the entire line instead of just argv[1] is anybody's guess.

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Regards, 

Lee E. Parsons                  		Baker-Huges Inteq, Inc
Oracle Database Administrator 			lparsons_at_exlog.com