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Re: Reboot in postinst



On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [David Sawyer]
> > Moral of the story:  NEVER SHUTDOWN OR REBOOT WITHOUT ASKING.

No. Never handle serious business like you'd handle your home's gateway
machine.

> Another moral might be to always test the stuff you plan to do on a
> production server on a test-server first.  I fail to see how it is
> sensible to browse the net on a production server.  And I fail to see
> how it is smart to run as a privileged user when it isn't required to
> do so.

Never mind the very idea of using anything Microsoft in such a scenario.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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