>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Tiernan <[email protected]> writes:
Michael> ----- "Josh Smift" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm surprised that you apparently got so much negative reaction. Michael> I think I might have given the impression that it was worse Michael> than it really was. The responses all seemed to be nature of Michael> what one might call the "before the event" versions of "What Michael> the hell were you thinking?!?!" Michael> I think everyone's words of caution were well placed and I Michael> appreciated them. Michael> The idea is as some suggest, along the nature of having one Michael> group (system admins) managing everything from "here" down Michael> and another group dealing with the "here up" section. Yes, Michael> there'd be lots of checking needed. (Oh and... what's it Michael> called.... communications? :) Michael> My asking the question was a favor and the person asking was Michael> looking for an axe to swing between two groups who were not Michael> seeing things eye-to-eye. Michael> Again, thanks to everyone for the answers and the warnings of Michael> what'd happen if one made a misstep. Maybe the solution is to have the Oracle DBAs run their cfengine instance as the oracle user, so that they *can't* muck around with generic system state, but can play around in their own sandbox as much as they want. Give them the gun, bullets and extra feet to shoot all they want. But you have your own armour keeping them at a distance. :] John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
