On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:16:50PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:36:03 -0500 > Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > people prefer to shut down the database. Since the Linux shutdown > > command issues a kill -TERM on all processes is it really necessary > > to do the Oracle shutdown prior to the Linux shutdown. > > It's not a preference. It's a requirement. kill -TERM will tell Oracle > to shut down but it takes time to clean up. If you halt the system > before the cleanup is finished then you will -- not might, will -- end > up with a corrupted database. > > I hope your DBAs are available to fix it when it happens. > > > > I have DBA privs on the database, but our DBAs are in Toronto and they > > are no longer allowed to work on servers in the US. > > ... > You're screwed.
All of this, echoed. ssh into the VM and run /etc/init.d/oracle stop, or similar. Wait for it to finish. It will tell you all about it. Then shut it down. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
