grousing

[da]

The system administration framework here at the University is old and clunky. While it simplifies some things, accounts management is enough to make (many of us) tear our hair out. I will spare you the details.

There has been a cool front-end loader digging up dirt around the building all week. It looks like fun to drive. Not for the first time, I wonder maybe I should go into construction.

Comments

[kraig.livejournal.com]

That's funny, one of the things I like best about it is the accounts management.

Of course, I just go xh-install accounts_client, wave my hands a bit, and it seems to Just Work. And if it's not on that platform already, I tell the users somebody gets to type adduser every time. I don't have to make it go.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

There's one word I have for you.

That word is "messageb".

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, it whines. That's Not My Problem.

I take on many things that are Not My Problem, but that one I refuse. :-)

But point taken, fair enough. (That one strikes me as being as much a political / religious issue as it does a technical one though. Of course, that's at least half the problem with The Packaging System That Shall Not Be Named.)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's my problem. ;)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

For my sins, I have been sentenced to try building apcupsd under The Packaging System That Shall Not Be Named.

sigh.