From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8D64C1EF7BC; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [64.62.188.119]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2191EF7AF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:16:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (71-38-154-164.ptld.qwest.net [71.38.154.164]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E4B878C54 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:17:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Deedra Waters To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Cc: Subject: a little sysadmin story Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:16:50 -0700 Message-ID: <86a956i23h.fsf@vibrator.pk5001z> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:16:49 -0000 i was working at oregon state's open source lab and network admin thing for a year and a half. Here's one situation. i came across. Not trying to antagonize anyone at all but here's what happened and this is one reason why i dislike speakup in the kernel even though it's got a lot of benifits.....Anyway...... I was working at the lab. Debian was having a problem with one of their my machines. The machine had crashed so i went to the dmz to kick it and try and help them figure out their problem. We were happily working on the box an hour or so later when i hit a speakup bug. The kernel panicked, and the box crashed. $debiandeveloper lost their changes to some config files. The end result was the lab lost their access to the debian machine. I had a similar problem on another client's box. end result, they flipped had speakup pulled from their kernels and i wasn't allowed to work on their boxes. This is an extreme case, but it's also an important point in my concern. -- Website: http://deedra.the-brannons.com blog: http://deedra.the-brannons.com/blog