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On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 14:39, Steven Elling wrote: |
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> On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:02, Jan Krueger wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:44, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> > > heh. Choose '2' for etc-update 8) |
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> > Normally i do so. But i dont want to press this key! |
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> > Please understand: Its not about pressing a key. Its about: |
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> > Requiring expensive human interaction when there is no need for it. |
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> Do that on several boxes and see how you feel about requiring `comment' |
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> updates to a config file or even having to deal with files that shouldn't |
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> need to be updated at all or manually. I've supported 350 and 3000 UNIX |
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> servers. Imagine if they were all Gentoo |
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I don't imagine that in a production enviroment of 3000 machines, you |
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would be making such drastic changes often that would require you to run |
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that on 3000 machines. Do you regularly upgrade the Solaris compiler? |
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System Patches? Still requires just as much work. heh. |
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If you had to patch 3000 machines, then you'd be better spending your |
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time like most sysadmins do, and figure out a way to automate large |
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scale patch distribution =) |
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I'm not trying to minimalize your point, but making a follow up point, |
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You wouldn't use Gentoo in a 3000 system node without expecting some |
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kind of maintainance upgrade being required. That is of course, why |
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sysadmins get paid. =) |
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