On 07/19/2010 07:09 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Jay Leafey wrote: > >> As far as paranoia goes, one of my mentors once told me that a mild >> degree was a useful attribute for a system administrator. It tends to >> make one spend more time thinking about what CAN go wrong, which is >> great if you actually put the results into practice. >> > A buddy of mine, who was the sr. systems and network admin I worked with > 10 years ago, used to say he was professionally paid to be paranoid. > > mark > 'The question is not "Am I paranoid?", it is "Am I paranoid *enough*?"' It's an old sysadmin adage. -- Benjamin Franz