Re: Database shutdown on NT

In article <MPG.e83e4eba0f287e7989681_at_nntp.uio.no>, Marco Foss <mfoss_at_no_spam.sio.uio.no> writes
>[This followup was posted to comp.databases.oracle.server and a copy was
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>In article <2PoGiJA5Y6F0Mw3s_at_camk.demon.co.uk>,
>Andy_Hardy_at_camk.demon.co.uk says...
>> In article <01bcbe48$77026660$b57348a6_at_russell>, _DEFAULT
>> <_DEFAULT_at_prodigy.net> writes
>> >You don't need to have NT call your shutdown script. The Oracle database
>> >shuts down automatically when the server is powered down.
>> >
>> >
>> Are you sure? Is there anyway to check what mechanism does this?
>>
>> The Oracle support guy said that simply stopping the services on NT with
>> WGS 7.3.2 does not perform a database shutdown. Isn't shutting down
>> services all that NT does during a shutdown?
>>
>> Andy
>> --
>
>You could verify what actually happens when you stop the services
>by looking into your alert logfile afterwards.
>
>I don't recall who, but someone wrote a program which will do a
>'shutdown immediate' upon NT shutdown. It installs as a service and
>works quite well on 7.3.2.x and NT4. I use it in case someone or
>something (UPS) wants to down NT and is not aware of the Oracle DB's
>or the correct procedures.
>
>Filename is orasafe.exe but I cannot remember the ftp site.
>
>Hope this helps.
>--
>Marco
>mfoss_at_no_spam.sio.uio.no

Marco,

This sounds like the sort of file I'm interested in.

Unfortunately, Archie and WWW searches have failed to find orasafe.exe - anyone else know where this file may be?

Andy

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Andy Hardy
Senior IT Systems Engineer
Cegelec AEG
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