[ On Saturday, March 9, 2002 at 11:46:15 (+1100), matthew green wrote: ]
> Subject: re: Removing compat/aout 
>
> i guess you've never heard of chroot?  personally, that's how
> *i've* managed to keep systems up while upgrading other things.

Yikes!  Can you spell "hack"?

I personally don't think systems programmers should ever be allowed to
upgrade systems, at least not unless they also have a heck of a lot of
operations experience and know that an upgrade that serious can only be
done safely and properly by building a new machine and then moving the
users and data over to it, either transparently if the types of services
allow, or with properly scheduled downtime.  [0.25 ;-)]

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