Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)
Boot with rescue disk is pathetic and abolutely unacceptable, as anyone
who has ever remotely administered a machine will be itching to tell you.
I am not always there to stick the floppy in; but in 9 out of 10 failures
I am left with some kind of usable shell.
Justin
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 08:33:46AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 06:51:37AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > FUD
> >
> > If what you say were true, you would be arguing that NO programs should be
> > dynamicly linked. That would be stupid.
> >
> > Dynamic linking only breaks when there is something wrong. Building a
> > distribution is a coordinated integration task, and when all of the
> > pieces-parts aren't compatible for one reason or another problems like the
> > recent bash failure show up...and then we fix it.
>
> On the other hand, Debian's documentation on what to do when the
> system goes south is rather limited.
>
> [We do have a "boot with the rescue disk" comment somewhere, but
> there's no signficant cookbook of advice for dealing with common
> situations, and we have no useful recommendations for headless
> machines.]
>
> Maybe in my fabulous free time...
>
> --
> Raul
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