On Tuesday 09 April 2002 20:03, Deshpande, Kirti wrote: Well Kirti, if you're going to morph this thread into stupid DBA tricks...
We had one young fellow working for us that was new to unix. He had just discovered that he could run a job in the background via '&' at about the same time he was assigned the task of recompiling all of the files for an entire application. You can probably guess the rest. ;) About the time he started bragging about how "quickly" he was able to recompile all of the code, we were all headed to the server room to find out why our dev server was suddenly so slow... Jared > We had one dba who (by mistake) issued a 'chown -R oracle:dba' followed by > 'chmod -R 750 *' from the '/' directory while logged in as root. > Fortunately, it was a server with no production databases on it, just a > couple of Development databases. She never new what a '#' prompt was. She > is long gone but such memories linger for ever ;) > It took a while for the SA's to let Oracle DBAs get root privileges after > that episode. > > And in my previous job, I had a junior DBA who tried to kill a background > job (%1) with 'kill -9' as root. The problem was, he forgot to put in '%' > before the '1' .... and then came to me stating that the Server does not > respond anymore :( while I was talking to the Customer who had beaten him > to place a trouble call about 'the database just hung-up'..... Is there a > Darwin Award for the Living (DBA)? =;) > > > - Kirti > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
