On 6/9/05, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Idle-timeout in the user's profile only "SNIPE"s a session, it doesn't > kill= > it. > The user is notified that the session was killed after they attempt to > make another call. If the user does not make another call in that > session, the session does not get killed, hence another method is > required to perform garbage collection. > This does give you the opportunity to kill these sessions. I used a perl script at a previous employer for just that purpose. All sniped sessions were killed automagically via 'kill -9', and then 'alter system kill' for good measure if per chance the 'kill -9' left some remnants. Re the 'kill -9': if you want to know why 'kill -9', there has been a lot of discussion on it in the past, just check the archives. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l