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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)? =;)
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:25 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I try NOT to get root privs. I know just enough to really damage the server and OS, but not enough to do much that is useful
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