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- From: john@iastate.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Date: 18 Jul 92 06:48 MDT
- Subject: Re: Opinions requested on booting U
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- In article <sasbge.711348652@ant> sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
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- [...sends e-mail before reboots at night...]
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- }I've got one person, who refuses to logoff even after repeated requests
- }and mail notices. Since I tend to be "Mr. Niceguy", I trot down to his
- }office and manually log him out when I have to do a reboot. Today, I
- }confronted him with my frustrations over the hassle he is causing. He
- }told me that he didn't care about whether or not I "killed" his
- }processes or not.
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- }All opinions are welcome, I would prefer the flames to be send to me
- }via Email. I apologize for the length of this post, but it is my
- }first to this group after reading it for some time.
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- I gave up trying to protect everyone from themselves -- I'd just let his
- machine have it -- when he gets burned (and he will), he'll wise up
- (I'd make sure your supervisor supports with this policy).
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- John
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