On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 23:32 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > And how did that single admin get 1000 systems that are obviously > similar enough to be managed by a single person? Maybe because the > budget allowed to buy a rather homegeneous pile of hardware? > I call crap on that. I was a single systems person for a bunch of systems for a long time. You keep your sanity by enforcing policy and you can do that by using the tools available to you to simplify the tasks. You don't need homogeneous hw, you need LARGELY homogeneous hw. So you limit the processor archs and you try to focus things down as much as possible. It took me 2 years to get rid of all the sun crap in the physics department but I did. I still had wacky AXP crap after that but then another few years and that was gone, too. My point is it didn't have much to do with the distro, it had more to do with me finding and working policy in place where it needed to happen. and THAT is how a sysadmin survives and thrives. By learning where they can engineer around a solution and where they need to use policy to help themselves. In this case Bill is right, this is where we realize that we can make the engineering help get rid of years of bad policy. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
