Re: Curious question

You say that like Adam has some sort of say in the matter ....

He's working with what his employers give him to work with.

Jim G

Tony wrote:
> Hi Adam and everyone:
>
> I note the number of systems that you worked with.
> What a pain.
>
> Just stick to one and be done with it.
>
> Tony
>
> --- Adam Bultman <adamb@glaven.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Tony wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adam and everyone:
>>>
>>> Explanation of coding
>>>
>>> An example of linux coding would be the directory
>>> where apache works off. In Red Hat, it is located
>> at
>>> /var/www/html while in SuSE 10.1 it is at
>>> /srv/www/htdocs.
>>>
>>> So if I wrote a script for Red Hat and wanted to
>> use
>>> it in SuSE, I have to change all the directories.
>>>
>> I don't want to be an insufferable nitpick, but
>> 'scripting' isn't
>> 'coding'. If you talk to some IT person about how
>> you were 'coding' last
>> night, they will assume you were programming (C,
>> C++, java,
>> smalltalk, etc).
>>
>> Scripting across the various flavors of linux is a
>> bit of a painb ecause
>> they DO put things in different places. A quick way
>> to take care of that
>> is to put a switch in that lets you choose your path
>> based on what flavor
>> of linux you're running. I've done this for
>> chkrootkit before - compile it
>> for different flavors and versions of linux and then
>> have the script check
>> which flavor it is, and run the one it should. It's
>> a little extra work,
>> but you'll save yourself by only needing to have ONE
>> copy in CVS, and
>> it'll run across all your different boxes.
>>
>> It IS a pain, but it IS managable. Ideally, yoiu'd
>> haev the same flavor
>> and version of linux across the board. But, that
>> doesn't always work out -
>> at my last job, we had RH6.2, RH7.3, RH9, FC1, FC2,
>> FC3, RHEL3, RHEL4, and
>> Centos4.
>>
>> Your insufferable, pedantic nitpick,
>> Adam
>>
>>
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Received on Wed Sep 6 10:33:09 2006