Kind of a cheezy answer, but look in /etc/init.d and see if the oracle script is there. you might be able to do something like:
sudo /etc/init.d/oracle stop to do a graceful shutdown. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an Oracle 11G server on a Linux (RHEL 5.9) virtual machine. It is > not a heavy production server but is used pretty consistently. Normally > when I have a scheduled shutdown normally one of our Toronto 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. > > (I'm a bit gun shy because the last time I issued an Oracle shutdown the > database got corrupted, but it probably was not my fault). > > 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. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
