RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

I once read an article in an IT publication (several years ago) in which the author stated that if you are still rebooting your Unix servers routinely, your Unix admins don't know what they're doing. Yes, the language was that harsh.
I thought this was ludicrous for 2 reasons: 1) The author assumes no applications have memory leaks. (Uh, yeah!) 2) Users, developers, (even DBAs) make changes. Imagine a change made which doesn't take affect until a shutdown. Now, imagine the next shutdown 4 months later. Now, imagine that change broke something. Finding the cause could be a perilous exercise.

>>> awells_at_csedge.com 04/04/03 07:23AM >>>

Your reasons beat ours, Ray. We just reboot the box every weekend because
we do and we always have. It is AIX, too. We don't even reboot our Win 2K
machines as often.

April Wells
Oracle DBA/ Oracle Apps DBA

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:58:37PM -0800, Connor McDonald wrote:
> All this discussion on shutdown does motivate me to
> ask why is everyone shutting down so frequently?

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Here are my reasons this past year:

oracle security patches
sun kernel patches
power "issues"
static configuration change
8i upgrade, no 9i upgrade, no wait 10i...
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