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 > > -- > > rgds > Stephen > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >