Christopher Chan wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> All of the third-party software I run seems to run just fine, as long as the right contexts are applied. > > > > Well, obviously it will work after someone takes the time to make it > > work. Now it is your turn to quantify: How much would you charge to > > teach someone to be able to make those changes and how long would it > > take? This has to include the ability to quickly diagnose and fix any > > problem that might be caused by updates to the application or to the OS > > distribution. > > > > As was already mentioned in another post, run in permissive mode, for a > few days if you must, and go through all the things the software does > and voila! setroubleshoot and/or logs tell you what needs doing. Very optimistic, that. In my shop, some things run annually. A comprehensive system test = production, for a year. Just this morning a 1099 (annual tax-form) script failed in test.