RE: major blunders

From: Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:18:08 -0600
Message-Id: <1254935888.14141.7.camel_at_lidhsrv.lidh.com>

When I was installing 11gR1 in our production environment, it gently reminded me that Oracle recommends not having your login directory be ORACLE_BASE which is unfortunately the standard for the company I support (of course, it gives you a YES and NO button but doesn't actually ask you a question...but I digress). It reminded me that one night I was setting permissions for archive logs for an auditing tool to mine and I accidentally set the ORACLE_BASE directory to read only. Every database, listener, agent, etc. went down simultaneously. My lesson was to know where you are before you do any "global" action.

        
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        On Behalf Of April Sims
        Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:42 AM
        To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
        Subject: major blunders
        
        Compiling a list of major blunders to avoid:
        
        Don't use the number 8 for scripting or ORACLE_SID due to the
        wild card
        character * above it.
        Don't use rm *.*
        ....
        
        Anyone else have some to contribute?
        
        thanks
        
        
        April Sims
        SELECT IOUG Contributing Editor
        http://aprilcsims.wordpress.com 
        OCP 8i, 9i, 10g DBA
        Southern Utah University
        sims_at_suu.edu
        940-484-4276
        
        
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