KG, What about using on-logon trigger to set event 10165 in sessions so they can be easily 'aborted'? Any drawbacks to using this event? Raj On 04/19/2005 12:53:20 PM, K Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > > There is a timeout for shutdown (I think starting from 9iR2) which > > defaults to 60 minus. If the active calls (!) don't complete in that > > time, the instance just updates the alertlog and doesn;t shutdown its > > own. You need to shutdown abort. > > > It is not documented btw :D > -- ------------------------------ select standard_disclaimer from company_requirements where category = 'MANDATORY'; -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l