On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Chris Bennett < ch...@bennettconstruction.biz> wrote:
> > There is a simple and effective system for this level. > > Have them write all their cron stuff in their crontab-let pad > Set crontab-alarm clock to go off at appropriate times > Type in commands from crontab-let pad. > > Never fails Heh. I did that at my last place. You want your web pages to go out automagically? OK, develop it, and when you're done, stick it onto this staging server. At 2am each morning, an rsync from staging sever to my prod server happens. After that, it rsyncs to each of the prod webservers. Throw in a couple of keys, and a year after I left, it was still working. Except that no one dared touch it, because "it just works" Even though I documented everything. But, they were click and drool monkeys, so.... -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
