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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Hardware / OS recommendation
Good God, man, what were you thinking? Allowing users to write their own shell scripts?!!? :)
Them's the easy ones. "It ain't under my control, don't expect me to take it into account."
Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of John Flack
Sent: Saturday, 20 March 2004 8:00 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Hardware / OS recommendation
Possibly. The problem is that there is enough undocumented stuff on there that something always gets overlooked. For instance, last time one of the problems was a shell script in a user's home directory that contained a Unix command that didn't have the same options on the new OS. We only tested scripts that were in the normal application directories. There always seems to be time to fix it when it calls attention to itself by breaking, but not time to document and reorganize so that we can give it a good test.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Sharman [mailto:peter.sharman_at_oracle.com]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:28 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Cc: Peter Ross. Sharman
Subject: RE: Hardware / OS recommendation
Well, he did say "have to field user complaints for weeks after each move, despite testing." That immediately implies there hasn't been sufficient testing to me. :)
Pete
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