Exactly. "Try"? I know how to shutdown the database, that is not an issue. =) I am asking more out of academic curiosity, since starting MMON explicitly is not documented, nor is it on Google (that I can find). Please no more guesses. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 14:41, Newman, Christopher <cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > If he tried that, my boss would throttle him. > > STARTUP FORCE > > If an instance is running, STARTUP FORCE shuts it down with mode ABORT > before restarting it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Mir M. Mirhashimali > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:38 PM > To: sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: anyway to restart mmon after database shutdown is cancelled? > > try STARTUP FORCE > > > On 6/9/2011 2:29 PM, Charles Schultz wrote: > > We had a dba boo-boo today; and now I have a curious issue on my > > hands. MMON and several other background processes are down, but the > > instance seems to have other recovered after an errant shutdown > > command was cancelled. So far Google has not shown me anything > > helpful. Wondering if there any tricks out there. > > > > Oracle Enterprise Edition, 11.1.0.7.7 > > Sun Solaris 10 > > > > -- > > Charles Schultz > > !DSPAM:2052,4df11f7f153741375242980! > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Charles Schultz