On 10/10/2017 11:03 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
Hiya everyone,
Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is somewhat embarrassing when I'm trying to persuade people of the "active and friendly Centos community"
It was a shame that no one actually read past the belligerence his original post enough to come up with a solution. It was quite clearly a problem with third party packages not coming with SELinux policies.
Also just as clearly, everyone on the list said this wasn't standard CentOS practice, the third party repo/packages OP used was not built properly and to either find a package that did, or compile from source. At no point will anyone on this list try to fix a 'problem' by ignoring the 40+ years of UNIX design. Liability aside, if someone doesn't like what the majority say on the list, that's their problem. Trying to stick persistent data in /var/run isn't standard (or best) practice and, indeed, /var/run is literally designed to not be persistent. Any sane admin wouldn't countenance that, and most of us are sane, and experienced.
Let me ask, would you allow your kids to do something that was obviously dangerous? This is the same thing. We're here to guide those willing to learn the /best/ method of resolving problems. Some aren't willing to learn and refuse to believe the majority here know what we're talking about. The true answer to OPs question wasn't what he wanted to hear and continued ad nauseum to insist that's what he wants to do. Sometimes people just have to fail to learn.
Most of us make a living in IT, and get paid to do things within the parameters of the systems we manage. How hard is it to understand such a simple concept? What you insist on calling a flame war, was some of us, me included, trying to get people to understand that 1) OP is wrong trying to do it this way 2) that OPs package wasn't standard CentOS packaging and was dangerous to use on CentOS systems and 3) that there's no way any of us would offer a work around for something that will almost certainly result in lost data.
OP appeared, to me at least, to be quite immature in insisting going against how CentOS (and RHEL) is designed and would very likely have come back to the list raising hell over losing data and how it's our fault for his inability to listen to us. Don't you think that would have been a bigger blow to the 'active and friendly community' if we'd actually offered advice contrary to design/best practice? Would you take advice from someone you know has given dangerous advice in the past?
We have this discussion on every list I've ever been, or currently are on about every 6 months or so. I do my best to contribute to the list as often as I can, but I can't help people when they are deadset on doing dangerous things. Posts like his, and posts like yours make it harder for me to bother trying to help those unwilling to listen. I don't take it from my children, and I certainly won't from adults who won't listen.