You mean he didn't use the 'nice' command? ;^)
-- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 4/10/02, Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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). > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alan Davey 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).
