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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:35:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: System Tuning/Sysadmins
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Agreed.  Unfortunately, the best experience with fixing things comes from 
having a broken system.  Unless you have someone more experienced to guide 
your studies in that area, you're only guessing that what you learn will be 
valuable for any kind of troubleshooting.

--Chip Morton



At 08:31 PM 6/17/2001, Mike wrote:
>You missed one critical thing about that statement: it's not about
>tuning things, it's about *fixing* things (first word, last
>line). Having a GUI to configure and/or tune things means you can do
>so without knowing anything about the underlying system. This is fine
>until the system breaks - at which point you're in the position of
>having to reinstall and reconfigure the thing from scratch. Or wait
>for someone who knows what they're doing to come fix it for you.
>Being able to fix things quickly and inexpensively is an important
>feature for a server - one that you lose more often than you need to
>unless you know how to use the more primitive tools for doing so.
>
>         <mike
>--
>Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>                      http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
>Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.


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