Wouldn't this create a looping situation that would start t.sh over and
over again? This would, eventually, create more processes than the
configuration could handle and crash. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

--- Vikas Kawatra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What the heck do the following commands do ??
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:01 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> You want to crash the server?  On any Unix box, execute the following
> four
> commands:
> 
> echo './t.sh &' > t.sh
> echo './t.sh &' >> t.sh
> chmod 777 t.sh
> ./t.sh
> 
> Don't even need special privileges to ruin everyone's day...
> 
> Brian Norrell
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Back a few years ago I remember being able to crash a NetWare server
> (4.x I
> think) running an early version of Oracle7 just by running some
> syntactically incorrect SQL. Yup, that not only crashed the database,
> but
> also the server. 
> 
> Henry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:37 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Hi Jared,
> 
> Nope, not direct mode. The table contains a couple of CLOB columns.
> 
> Haven't heard back from Oracle yet, but you're right, it is kind of
> scary.
> We were planning on using this environment for hosting some of our more
> active web sites.
> 
> --Walt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Weaver, Walt
> 
> 
> 
> Walt,
> 
> What's scary about this is not just that you've managed to crash
> the database by very innocent means, but we don't know how else
> this bug can be invoked.  It could be something equally innocuous.
> 
> Q:  Are you loading in direct mode?
> 
> Jared
> 
> 
> On Monday 07 May 2001 16:20, Weaver, Walt wrote:
> > Just thought I'd share what I learned today with everyone. This is
> Oracle
> > 8.1.7 on a VA Linux 4450, Linux Red Hat 6.2. I'm migrating customers
> from
> > MySQL to Oracle, using Sqlloader to load the data into Oracle.
> >
> > In one table I have the following column: C$NOTES VARCHAR2(4000)
> >
> > In my Sqlloader script I have an entry: C$NOTES CHAR(4000)
> >
> > When I ran Sqlloader about 130 out of 35,000 rows were not loaded due
> to a
> > "inserted value too large for column" error on C$NOTES.
> >
> > So, just for grins I changed the Sqlloader entry to C$NOTES
> CHAR(40000).
> >
> > When I run Sqlloader for the table with this value, it crashes the
> database
> > every time with an ORA-600 [4620] [] [] [] [] [] error. Every dang
> time.
> > Pmon just gives up the ghost, man. Shuts the door and turns off the
> lights.
> > Dies a horrible death.
> >
> > Now, obviously I created this problem myself, but it seems to me that
> > Oracle
> >
> > should be able to handle this a bit more gracefully than it does. :>)
> >
> > Anybody else ever see this? I've logged an iTar on MetaMidget to
> inform
> the
> > authorities of the problem. My cursory search on MetaMidget uncovered
> > absolutely no evidenct that anyone knows about this.
> >
> > --Walt Weaver
> >   Bozeman, Montana
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