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• another perfectly good reason (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  that programmers should never be given root...not /ever/. I hope those sysadmins guilt you out of enough beer that you begin to feel queasy the next time you even think about root. :)
  • Re:another perfectly good reason (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087) on 2004.07.07 5:04 (#32204) Journal

    While that's valid, it's not strictly relevant here as the RPM has to do this, and the programmers have to write the RPM generation code.
    
    The real issue is it not going through QA (and this happened because the code to build this RPM has been in the QA queue for 6 months and keeps getting overlooked in favour of more important projects).
    
    It also shows that developers need sleep. I'm very tired right now and not sleeping well and am making stupid decisions because of this.

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    • Re:another perfectly good reason (Score:1)

      by jmason (3282)

      ouchy ouch.
      
      (1) killall is definitely better
      (2) a good argument for using a pidfile and "kill existing daemon" code into the daemon
      (3) or an rc script ;)
      (4) and definitely QA
      • Re:another perfectly good reason (Score:2)

        by Matts (1087)

        killall didn't work because it was a perl process and so I was grepping for the script path. Otherwise I would have used it, yes.