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

From: Tim Sawmiller <sawmillert_at_state.mi.us>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 15:05:20 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002FE420.20010509114243@fatcity.com>

Not as pissed off as the time he trusted me with the root password, and I absent mindedly ran this command from the root partition:

chown <me> *

>>> ThaterW_at_telergy.net 05/09/01 03:16PM >>> On Wed, 9 May 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

->make exponentially growing files and processes

And make your SA REALLY pissed off.;-)

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Bill Thater             Certifieable ORACLE DBA
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You gotta run like there's nobody watching,
It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.
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