On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:59 PM, John Broome <[email protected]> wrote:

> Order may not matter with ssh, but when trying something and it
> doesn't work, but *does* work in the order listed in the manpage for
> the version of the program on that particular version of the OS, I
> gotta ask if you checked the manpage and tried it as documented.
>

You are assuming that I care whether it works one way or the other.  I
don't.  My only aim was to find out if there is some _explicit_
documentation that specifies that this is a permanent change,  or to see if
anyone was aware of perhaps a simple configuration tweak to correct this
before I tell an entire department of programmers and sysadmins, "You're
doing it wrong."

So after exhausting Google, manpages, source repository commit logs and
change logs, I decided to send an email to the Tech list of LOPSA.  And
instead of just the simple, respectful, "Well, it's a POSIX standard, but
other than that I'm not aware of anything" from Adam (thank you, Adam), I
instead get "RTFM n00b".

Lesson learned.  Won't make that mistake again.

(And can't say I will recommend the LOPSA community to anyone else based on
this experience, either.)

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