On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It could just be a clumsy way of signaling to some outside program that the > database has been mounted by an instance. I used to write scripts that > looked for the "sgadef_$ORACLE_SID.dbf" file in the "$ORACLE_HOME/dbs" > directory, for example... > > ...just an idea?... > In that case, I wonder what breaks if SUID is not set? Or maybe the legacy code dependent on it is gone, and the code to set the bit is still in use? > Gotta remember that the Oracle RDBMS is the product of combined effort by a > huge range of people, some of whom are likely to be ... ahem ... a little > idiosyncratic... perhaps? Some of you who were Oracle employees back in the > early- to mid-1990s might remember the hard-copy employee phone book for > Oracle, which had an entry for "Lastnm=Clinton, Firstnm=Bill, > email=DONT_INHALE"? Now, that's special... > > Idiosyncratic? Programmers/DBA's/Geeks ? Surely you jest. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist