if it is linked to the shutdown scripts in the machine then it will go down cleanly. Why cant you log in via the oracle client enterprise manager and shut it down, you have a password file? Anyway doesnt matter if it just gets killed, it will recover itself quite happily, the same as doing a shutdown abort which is safe On 6/14/05, Chris Hoover <revoohc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chris Hoover <revoohc@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Jun 13, 2005 4:08 PM > Subject: How to shutdown 9i? > To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >=20 > The decision has been made to reboot this server tonight. However, it > is our Oracle 9i db server. Is there anyway to get Oracle to shutdown > w/o being able to log onto the box? We can connect to the db fine > with our application and sql plus, we just can't get a shell on the > box. We do not have an Enterprise manager server since we only run > this on copy of Oracle. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l