[CentOS] Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

[Les Mikesell]

On 8/5/2010 1:36 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Benjamin Franz wrote:
>> On 08/05/2010 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> No, the part I don't understand is why you can't ignore any request
>>> where you are unwilling or unable to help.  If everyone did, there would
>>> only be one or two messages on this thread instead of the current mess.
>>>
>> +1
>
> The first job I did sysadmin work, a couple weeks after I started, my
> managers asked me if I'd be willing to pick up for a consultant rolling
> off, and I agreed. The next year, in addition to my ...late... wife, I was
> sleeping with Aeleen Frisch's Essential System Administration. The next
> year, when the division had grown from 4 teams to 27, and they brought in
> the corporate sysadmins to take the load off us, I was told there were
> exactly *two* teams whose servers looked right... and mine was one. The
> others ran the gamut to files all over, including in root, and everyone
> having the root password....
>
> But I was willing to learn. I object to someone who isn't, coming in to
> mooch, and giving me at least as mch to wade through as this thread.
> Further, if we either ignored them, or did their jobs for them, we'd be
> inundated by folks who got a job they weren't qualified for, and aren't
> interested in learning how to do it, but just mooch off of others.
>
> I'll do their job for me if they pay me. This isn't writing code, mostly,
> that they're asking for, but how to run and configure.

I understand your not doing it.  No one has demanded that you do it. 
But why continue to clutter the list with much more than the thing you 
are complaining about?  Questions can just go unanswered here - mine 
sometimes do.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com