> We have the "shutdown - > h" > in > the inittab. Hmm. But you are still getting the shutting down for reboot message, which seems odd to me. I think there's something funny in your init scripts for starting/stopping Oracle -- there should be something there that makes the shutdown process synchronous with actual exit of the program. Could you paste those into a message and let us have a look?
> in our systems, Oracle is in the process of shutting down > wh > en > linux pulls the plug. How do any of you handle oracle/linux shutdown. That's one of the reasons why we wrote SYSVINIT. It goes through the sequence of virtual machines and waits for each one to exit and log off, then issues the CP SHUTDOWN. That way we know the fragile stuff is already packed away before CP goes away. It's free, give it a try. http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/s5i
