Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

* Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> [010306 13:27] wrote:
> Nathan Myers wrote:
> > That is why there is no problem with version skew in the syscall
> > argument structures on a correctly-configured Linux system. (On a
> > Red Hat system it is very easy to get them out of sync, but RH fans
> > are used to problems.)
>
> Is RedHat bashing really necessary here? At least they are payrolling
> Second Chair on the Linux kernel hierarchy. And they are very
> supportive of PostgreSQL (by shipping us with their distribution).

Just because they do some really nice things and have some really
nice stuff doesn't mean they should really get cut any slack for
doing things like shipping out of sync kernel/system headers, kill
-9'ing databases and having programs like 'tmpwatch' running on
the boxes. It really shows a lack of understanding of how Unix is
supposed to run.

What they really need to do is hire some grey beards (old school
Unix folks) to QA the releases and keep stuff like this from
happening/shipping.

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]