From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-01T05:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for system administration

I am partly the same way, except what I need to get on
each is performed by a script on each machine that
fetches instructions from my remote server. --David

--- David Morton <mortonda@dgrmm.net> wrote:

> Martin DeMello wrote:
> > His point was that as a sysadmin he very carefully
> restricts himself to
> > stuff that comes with a stock install of the
> OS/distribution. I was
> 
> oof. I'm exactly opposite.  RedHat screwed up so
> many packages with 
> their own patches that many applications failed to
> compile properly.
> If it is a primary service of the server, I compile
> it by hand.  That 
> way I know that it is installed the way the orignal
> authors designed it, 
> and when I need to ask for help, they can actually
> help.
> 
> 



	
		
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