etali wrote: > [...] > If you have the luxury of powerful hardware, and enough knowledge to do > things both ways, then of course - use what works for you. I do think > that newbies should learn things "the hard way" though. In the past few > months, on test machines, I've had Webmin throw a fit mess up my server > configuration for no apparent reason, and I've had XFCE and KDE refuse > to work after an update. They were salvagable thanks to the wonder of > the command line, and that's why I encourage people to become familiar > with "the hard way" first.
Hello, Lesley. I agree with you about that: It's important to know how to dig yourself out of a hole using "busybox", but even then I'm inclined to just boot a dodgy server from a 'live' CD and fix it the easy way. It's not quite so easy to do that if you don't have physical access to a server, though! I must admit that I've executed perl scripts via CGI to get software working on a web-hosted server that didn't allow me to have a login shell! I think you're right, though, that you do have to know how to administer servers the hard way - just in case you really need to :-) Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
