RE: Cool way to crash an Oracle database, any time, any place

Hi Kirti,

>We had one DBA who did chown -R oracle * followed by chmod -R u+x,g+x *
>while at / as root !!
>That pissed of everyone not just the SAs.
>It took several days (almost a rebuilt of the server) to recover.
>Who to blame? The supid prompt for not having a # and id when
>su-ed to root.

May I also add that while most systems do set PS1 to contain the hostname and directory, etc. it is *VERY* important to always perform a 'su -' rather than a plain 'su', as the latter does not invoke root's profile which in turn sets the PS1, the "#", etc.

Bottom line : Always use 'su - ' rather than 'su'...

John Kanagaraj

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