> Lately we have had some problems with Oracle corruption that we are > being told it is because the way we are shutting down our z/Linux guest. > What is the cleanest and safest way to shutdown a z/Linux guest?
'shutdown -h now', or triggering the same via SIGNAL SHUTDOWN with proper init scripts to start/stop applications. Oracle does data caching as well as the caching that Linux does, so it's doubly important that you get everything flushed to disk and shut down properly before the guest goes away. > Should > we be issuing a separate Oracle shutdown of some sort before shutting > down the whole guest? You should have an init script in /etc/init.d that both starts and stops the Oracle instances that matches the conventions of your Linux distribution. I wrote and posted some examples to this list, since Oracle doesn't seem to come with them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
