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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:34:27 +0100
From:      "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To:        "Bruce M Simpson" <bms@spc.org>, "Richard Coleman" <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <078a01c3afe0$5e2f5040$b9844051@insultant.net>
References:  <2147483647.1069240727@[192.168.42.6]> <20031120095214.GA68334@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <050d01c3afa8$1dfb97a0$b9844051@insultant.net> <156539179.20031121001033@andric.com> <061f01c3afbd$4692a040$b9844051@insultant.net> <3FBD788A.4070809@mindspring.com> <20031121025952.GA85809@saboteur.dek.spc.org>

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From: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms@spc.org>
> During my time in an investment bank, installations were usually hosed
> in this way by human error (systems administrators removing a file by
> accident, etc) ...

yup, it's rare i've seen flakey h/w.  but i do remember one sysadmin
(when i was a contract sysadmin) who on day 2 chown'd the whole
source tree to himself on a development m/c.  ugly.  there were
backups but 'that would be too costly [in time]' to do a clean restore.



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