"John Hillman" <john.hillman@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1129907353.301971.5700@g43g2000cwa.googlegrou ps.com:

> Our Oracle DBA is doing some DR testing and has rm'd /dev/r**** which
Why does the DBA have access to root ? :-)


> Any way to recreate it?
/dev entries are recriated on reboot (with normal root permissions).


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Doing AIX support was the most monty-pythonesque
activity available at the time.
Eagerly awaiting my thin chocolat mint.

Jose Pina Coelho wrote:
> "John Hillman" <john.hillman@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1129907353.301971.5700@g43g2000cwa.googlegrou ps.com:
>
>
>>Our Oracle DBA is doing some DR testing and has rm'd /dev/r**** which
>
> Why does the DBA have access to root ? :-)
>
>
>
>>Any way to recreate it?
>
> /dev entries are recriated on reboot (with normal root permissions).

I've never heard of this, sounds interesting. What if /dev is completely
missing?

Jose Pina Coelho wrote:
> "John Hillman" <john.hillman@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1129907353.301971.5700@g43g2000cwa.googlegrou ps.com:
>
>
>>Our Oracle DBA is doing some DR testing and has rm'd /dev/r**** which
>
> Why does the DBA have access to root ? :-)
>
>
>
>>Any way to recreate it?
>
> /dev entries are recriated on reboot (with normal root permissions).
>
>

My thougts exactly! Reminds me of a job I left where not only the DBAs,
but the App developers/admins ALSO had root permission (these guys used
to ask me how to login in via a telnet session!)...the "DBAs" were the
worst - they couldn't get it through their "NT" (long story; scary and
anger inducing memories) oriented brains that AIX/UNIX is a MULTI user
platform and that I could make MOST of their problems go away IF they
would only allow me to do the job I was hired for...in their minds,
EVERYTHING should run as root because there WAS NO OTHER way!....

.....shuddddrrrrrrr

Paul
p.s. I would have told this DBA, you know enough to have root
permission...you broke it, YOU fix it (WRT above situation - I did that
a couple of times)!!