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On 01/02/2012 11:22 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I'm not clear. You allow your server customers to modify your servers, |
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> or what, they asked you to install stuff and now you don't know which |
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> of them was needed and why? I'm just not clear. |
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They ask us to install stuff, and now we don't know which ones are needed. |
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> My basic response, again allowing that I don't run servers that have |
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> 'customers' on them, is that 'equery depends' is the basic path to |
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> determine if any of these are dependencies of other things in the |
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> world file. If they are then they themselves possibly don't need to be |
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> in the world file unless they meet my rule #2 as they are required for |
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> some sort of development work your customer does. |
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> I completely agree about travel time. My family lives 350 miles away. |
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> I've managed their machines for 10 years this way and only once had a |
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> problem that required me to get physical access. In the normal worst |
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> case I have a Live CD with a couple of instructions they can execute |
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> to get me back into the machine. |
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Well, travel time sucks too, but I was referring to time travel via e.g. |
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a time machine, in case some wise guy tried to answer "well you |
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shouldn't have done that." =) |
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