[Discuss] Shutting down Oracle hosted on Linux

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
> 
> Since the Linux shutdown command
> issues a kill -TERM 

Oh - 
kill -TERM is the graceful shutdown signal.  If you read the killall script, you'll see, that it issues a killall -TERM, and then it waits a while, and then it issues killall -KILL which is the ungraceful shutdown signal.

Between your actual "oracle stop" command and the killall -TERM signals, you really should be able to gracefully stop oracle before kill KILL'ing everything.