I smell a Sharktank T-shirt coming up! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> -----Original Message----- > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:20 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Great story! Metalink down caused inhouse crash > > > Thanks for sharing that Bambi. Really brightened up my Friday. > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:45 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > At my last project, we were putting in OraFin and we had a > team of Oracle > consultants doing up the front-end setup stuff (populating > screens, etc). > Well, one day, I get this panicked call that "the system" was > down. Well, > of course, that was silly. The system was up just fine, > thank-you-very-much, and the database was fine, and even "my" > version of the > app was just fine-and-dandy. This reminded me of the old > lightbulb joke ("I > got one over here just like it and it works fine for me"), so > I tried to log > in as the user from "my" app, and it worked fine. I went > upstairs, and > sure-nuf, she couldn't log in and couldn't log in. She > *swore* she had > never logged onto Unix and had never changed *anything* > except data, and it > was working fine til 9:15 then boom! Well, after awhile, I > ran out of ideas > and tried to log a TAR, and, as you can tell from the subject > line, Metalink > was down. It was down all morning, and started coming up > slowly around 1pm. > When I was finally able to enter the text of the TAR, I was > just about to > log the TAR and my phone rang with a "Gee, you fixed it, > thank you!". Well, > *that* was a bit too much of a coincidence for me. Well, the > upshot of the > whole thing was that, for whatever reason, in their setups, > they wanted the > actual Oracle splash page to come up instead of the one that > ships with > OraFin and one of their in-house experts who had since disappeared had > hardcoded in the server that hosted Metalink into the app. > > And the really great thing was when I took out the reference > to that machine > leaving the default splash screen as was, they didn't even > notice. What a > day that was! > > Bambi. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).
