On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:56:50AM +0100, Peter Onion wrote:
In last nights situation I think it would have been much better to suggest to wildfire_cs that they email a copy of /etc/fstab to either iDunno or quinophex, for them to then make the required changes and email back the changed file. wildfire_cs could then save the original and replace it with the edited version and bingo problem solved.
<final post from me on this subject, getting bored now>
Oh for gods sake, stop backtracking. We verified the backups of the files *before* we copied the new ones across. Just because we didn't do things in the same order *you* would makes *no* difference.
Having you jumping in every 10 seconds telling us that we are wrong and don't know what we were doing was much less helpful when trying to sort someone out. Stop trying to make out that we could have screwed up somebodies computer, we did everything with care and proper verification first, if there were any problems we would have picked up on them *before* the edited fstab was ever copied back in to /etc/ but you weren't there on IRC to read this as you had a hissy fit and quit.
Stop telling us that "we were jumping in" as though we didn't know what we were doing, your comments are less than complimentary. To be honest if the way you reacted last night is the way you typically react when someone says or does something you don't agree with or slightly controversial then I hope I never end up working in a server room with you trying to fix a broken machine!
Adam