Brandon, I think you can solve your problem by adding psexec -s -d net stop OracleServiceSID to your group policy shutdown script. psexec.exe can be downloaded from sysinternals.com (now part of Microsoft). Running it with -s allows you to run as the pseudo system account instead of the real user, oracle in your case. (I often launch psexec -s -i -d taskmgr to lower priority of virus scan processes. That won't violate our institution policy!) Let me know if it works for you. I can't find a Windows box running Oracle server and I can reboot at will. Yong Huang --- "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No problem, I still appreciate your help. No, I don't have access to > the console, so I can't see that message if it's there, but I did do a > similar test already by adding the "time /t" commands with output > redirected to a log file and thus verified that my script is indeed > being executed, however the "net stop" commands in the same script seem > to have no effect when shutdown is via shutdown.exe. I suspect it's > some sort of Windows authentication/privilege issue because if I run the > shutdown from the GUI, it shows the shutdown being done by NT > AUTHORITY\SYSTEM in the Event Viewer and the net stop commands work as > expected, but if I shutdown via shutdown.exe, it shows the shutdown > actually being run by my oracle user account - details are in the > attached spreadsheet, but not sure if it will make it to the list so > below is a text version although it will probably be a bit difficult to > read. > > Date Time Source Type Category Event User Computer > Description > Shutdown from Windows GUI (Start > Shutdown) > > 5/12/2008 12:37:24 PM USER32 Information None 1074 > NEWIM-DBS01\oracle NEWIM-DBS01 The process Explorer.EXE has > initiated the restart of computer NEWIM-DBS01 on behalf of user > NEWIM-DBS01\oracle for the following reason: Other (Planned) > Reason Code: 0x85000000 > > Shutdown Type: restart > > Comment: Brandon - testing again" > > 5/12/2008 12:37:27 PM USER32 Information None 1074 > NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM NEWIM-DBS01 The process svchost.exe has > initiated the restart of computer NEWIM-DBS01 on behalf of user NT > AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason > could be found > Reason Code: 0x80070020 > > Shutdown Type: restart > > Comment: " > 5/12/2008 12:37:27 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7035 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM NEWIM-DBS01 The > OracleDBConsolecsdprd service was successfully sent a stop control. > 5/12/2008 12:38:03 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7036 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The OracleDBConsolecsdprd > service entered the stopped state. > 5/12/2008 12:38:04 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7035 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM NEWIM-DBS01 The > OracleServiceCSDPRD service was successfully sent a stop control. > 5/12/2008 12:38:13 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7036 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The OracleServiceCSDPRD service > entered the stopped state. > 5/12/2008 12:38:15 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7036 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The > OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener service entered the stopped state. > 5/12/2008 12:38:15 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7035 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM NEWIM-DBS01 The > OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener service was successfully sent a stop > control. > 5/12/2008 12:38:20 PM EventLog Information None > 6006 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The Event log service was stopped. > > > Shutdown from command line: shutdown /r /t 30 /c "Brandon - Testing > Oracle shutdown 2" /d p:4:1 > > 5/12/2008 5:01:27 PM Application Popup Information > None 26 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 Application popup: System > Shutdown : The system is shutting down. Please save all work in > progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown > was initiated by NEWIM-DBS01\oracle. Shutdown will begin in 30 seconds. > Shutdown message: Brandon - Testing Oracle shutdown 2. > 5/12/2008 5:01:27 PM USER32 Information None 1074 > NEWIM-DBS01\oracle NEWIM-DBS01 The process winlogon.exe has > initiated the restart of computer NEWIM-DBS01 on behalf of user > NEWIM-DBS01\oracle for the following reason: Application: Maintenance > (Planned) > Reason Code: 0x84040001 > > Shutdown Type: restart > > Comment: Brandon - Testing Oracle shutdown 2" > > 5/12/2008 5:01:57 PM Service Control Manager Information > None 7036 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The DSM SA Event Manager service > entered the stopped state. > 5/12/2008 5:01:58 PM EventLog Information None > 6006 N/A NEWIM-DBS01 The Event log service was stopped. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yong Huang [mailto:yong321@xxxxxxxxx] > > When you run shutdown.exe, do you see "Running shutdown script" on > console? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l