You mean he didn't use the 'nice' command?
;^)
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On 4/10/02, Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> 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
>>
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