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Date:      Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:02:54 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
Message-ID:  <9E3D30044A5228599E94960B@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050420191559.06cd0368@localhost>
References:  <20050419043330.GA92736@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050419203347.05bed918@localhost> <20050420120120.9D06.REES@ddcom.co.jp> <6.2.1.2.2.20050420170705.06dc6050@localhost> <4266ECBB.6000703@daleco.biz> <6.2.1.2.2.20050420191559.06cd0368@localhost>

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--On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 07:20:24 PM -0600 Brett Glass 
<brett@lariat.org> wrote:
>
> I consult with, and provide service to, quite a few sysadmins
> at small companies. Most of them won't bother to fix a FreeBSD
> system that's gone awry like that; they'll just reinstall. They
> do not have the time to investigate the subtleties of what went
> wrong.

Then they're not sysadmins.  Their box maintainers.  If you really want to 
do a good job of consulting, you should recommend, when they format the 
box, that they install an OS they know something about.  Trying to 
"sysadmin" OSes you are ignorant of is simply asking for trouble.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu



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