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- From: eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
- Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: Slow login and u386mon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.215524.7239@xenitec.on.ca>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:55:24 GMT
- References: <9212310115.aa21881@kagcpd01.ag01.kodak.COM> <76@shady.UUCP>
- Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
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- In article <76@shady.UUCP> kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith) writes:
- >My guess is, and I refuse to accept responsibility if wrong, that you
- >can edit these files in multiuser.
- > [...]
- >Make backups of the files before starting and ask everyone to sit still
- >while you are editing (i.e. no logins or logouts).
-
- You can do just about anything while multi-user. That doesn't imply
- that it's a particularily good plan.
-
- I come from the school of little faith. You're going to trust all
- your end-users to sit still just because you asked the ones at hand
- to do so? You may even go so far as to turn off all your modems and
- shut down your TCP/IP to ensure no one from outside accidently tries
- to log in. Sure enough, somebody is going to come out of the washroom
- and want to get back to work.
-
- Do yourself a favour and take the system single-user for the 5 minutes
- this exercise will take. Mess up, and cleanup will almost certainly
- take longer.
- --
- Ed. A. Hew, <edhew@xenitec.on.ca> ....!uunet.ca!xenitec!eah
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