From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 20:23:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06842 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06836 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23796; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:22:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3647BF3D.FE35498A@seattleu.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 20:21:17 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: pat.groce@state.sd.us Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help References: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On further thought, perhaps some people just don't have the mindset required to be a network administrator. Usually, my first thoughts when something breaks is "What did I do wrong?" "What did I screw up?" or, "What did I change?" have you noted the 'I' in all of those questions? I imagine that even on the absolute worst OS imaginable, human error is the number one source of problems. I do technical support at small office and the primary problems I have to troubleshoot end up sounding like "The COMPUTER stopped working," when in fact the user innocently, and/or ignorantly messed up. That is what I am there for, that is what this list exists for. Today I was trying to run a java program that started giving me java.lang.blah exceptions. What was the source of the problem? I downloaded a new classes.zip (Winblows 95) into my java directory. Having foreseen a potential for some screw up at this point, I had renamed the old file classes.zip.ORIGINAL. Just goes to show that with the proper precautions, any error is repairable, with the proper precautions. Remember, "What did I do wrong?" Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message