[549] in Tooltime
Re: help-it database shutdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter B. Kelley)
Tue Nov 18 11:00:16 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:59:14 -0500
To: Steven Wade Neiterman <wade@MIT.EDU>, o&s-facmgt@MIT.EDU, ds-ask@MIT.EDU
From: "Peter B. Kelley" <kelley@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tooltime@MIT.EDU
Steve,
The master copy of this script resides on a different platform. I'll make
sure that the changes get permanently changed.
thx, pete
At 08:42 AM 11/18/97 -0500, Steven Wade Neiterman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>With the help-it database in production, I was checking the logs to see
>that it is backed up.
>
>The first thing I noticed is that the database is not being shutdown.
>
>The shutdown_database script executes do_oracle, where it should be
>executing do_dbora. The help-it machine does not have a
>/sbin/init.d/oracle, but does have a /etc/init.d/dbora. I would like to
>switch the TRUE and FALSE for these two items?
>
>This had been working at one time. It looks like the script was replaced
>on October 14, 1997 (last mod date). One concern is that if we make this
>change, the script may get replaced at a later time.
>
>The perform_backup logs say the backup occured, so, it appears this occured
>without shutting down the database.
>
>Anyway, you may want to confirm my findings.
>
>Thanks,
>
>..Steve
>
>
>
