From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:55:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008191755.02426.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819134941.078aa0b1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:49 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:05:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > But for critical production machines? Not a flying chance in hell :-)
> > Too many times I've had to sort out the carnage from idiotic juniors
> > who blindly run "emerge -uND world" and walk away thinking Unix always
> > works like RedHat.
>
> Why do you give these idiotic juniors the root password/sudo emerge rights?
Because I have better things to do than log into 137 machines and do what it
takes to update world on each one? Remember this ain't a cluster - only about
20 of them share any kind of common usage.
Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will never
become responsible.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 8:33 [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1 Alan McKinnon
2010-08-17 9:56 ` Graham Murray
2010-08-17 13:21 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-08-17 15:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-17 16:30 ` Zhu Sha Zang
2010-08-17 23:32 ` William Kenworthy
2010-08-18 14:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-19 12:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-19 15:55 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-08-19 17:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 9:21 ` Alan McKinnon
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