Sqlplus scripts on unix hanging

First of all, I have no clue what iSql-plus is. My question is about sql-plus, but there's no dicussion forum for that. Anyways!
I have some unix scripts that trigger pl-sql programs using the following command....
sqlplus myName/myPasswd@myDb myscript.sql
'myscript.sql' is a pl-sql script that contains an 'exit;' statement at the end to close the sqlplus session. the unix script then does some other things afterwards.
Problem: if something goes funny somewhere on our server that causes sql-plus to be unable to connect to the database (eg listener problems, reboot, etc.), sqlplus simply prompts the std-out to try again. My 'exit;' command never runs, so the session hangs. This works when you're logging in as an interactive user, but as a batch script it causes things to totally hang. I need a way to trap the error so that i can handle it. I'd like a good sol'n - not something silly like running it in the background or putting a timer in the script.
Anyone have any ideas? I can't see any command line paramaters that might do this.
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iSQL*Plus is the web enabled interface to SQL*Plus. There is a simple 8.1.7 Beta version available for download from OTN. The first production version (which is much improved from the 8.1.7 Beta) will be available with Oracle9i on Windows.
There are various tricks to checking that a database is running. You can use the operating system return code from SQL*Plus to check that a database is it.
Create a script test.sql containing three EXIT commands:
exit
exit
exit
On UNIX in Bourne or K shell:
$ sqlplus scott/tiger < test.sql > /dev/null 2>&1
$ echo $?
- CJ

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