[CentOS] Appreciate the help...
Scott Ehrlich
scott at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 24 10:48:30 UTC 2008
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:12:13PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> To answer several people's curiosities of why I keep pushing - when I'm
>> tasked with a quest, I try to tap all my resources, including this list, to
>> find a solution. One never knows when an answer might be obvious, or
>> perplexing, as this question seems to have been. To some, an answer is
>
> I've found, in the past, that questions like this are normally indicative
> of the wrong question being asked. People are trying to put controls in
> the wrong place, thinking this is the solution to an underlying problem.
>
> When this happens at work I ask people to take a step back and to describe
> the problem they're trying to solve. "No, you don't want cron to do
> xyz... explain what you think the problem is you're trying to solve in
> non technical terms". Very frequently there's alternate solutions to
> the problem. The "noexec" idea someone suggested was one such attempt.
>
> Historically this has been called "thinking outside the box", but I
> prefer to think of it as analysing the real problem, what are you trying
> to solve; not "can this technology do blah".
I could not agree more about asking more detailed questions first, getting
to the true source of the problem, and finding a way around that.
But, not all cases can permit such questions, including this.
Thanks again to all.
Scott
>
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>
> rgds
> Stephen
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