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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:59:52 +0000
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <20031121025952.GA85809@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FBD788A.4070809@mindspring.com>
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>

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote:
> But I've often wondered how frequently a production system has such 
> problems.  I've been a sysadmin for many years and can't remember this 
> ever happening.  It's much more common to blow a hard drive, or have 
> flaky memory, etc.

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) or by third party package installation. The OS in
question was Solaris.

BMS



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