[Leaplist] Problems w/ users under CentOS 5.3 ....

[Bryan J. Smith]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:  

> The offending  /etc/profile.d file (*1* file, BTW, *not* the whole 
> directory) 

It doesn't matter if it's one (1) file or a full tree, it's still a modification
of the root filesystem, it's no longer "prestine."

Again, I will re-iterate the importance of such details.  Never, ever
assume that things work the same between vendors or different
products v. projects of the same vendor.  If you want help, you have
to avoid saying "prestine" when it is not, etc...  ;)

Basic scientific method, limit your variables, make your changes,
etc...  Otherwise, people can't help you.  I'm not trying to lecture you,
I'm just trying to point out the importance of disclosing all you've
changed (and being hesitant to do so).

As I mentioned, on a daily basis, I deal with this.  I have worked at
the Tier-3 level over the last seven (7) years, and there's not a day
that goes by where I don't have to re-point a sysadmin to, "oh, when
were you going to tell me about that change?"

So, again in this case, if I had access to your system (like I do of the
sysadmins I support -- both as a vendor rep today, as well as an
independent prior), I would have caught your /etc/profile.d change
forgot to tell me.

> was copied over from a 933 MHz PIII running FC5, where is has
> worked AOK for about 5 years now :-/ (w/ 1.5 GB of stackspace
> enabled on a box w/ 1.5 GB of RAM).

Fedora != Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat limits and disables quite a bit from Fedora.  So while you
can assume things about Fedora from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, going
the other way, product managers will limit and disable things.

Furthermore, SELinux is also a consideration here.  You cannot
assume the box is going to let you have everything and anything
as far as resources, among other things, without you so configuring
it.

> legacy in-house code needs it, stipulated & irrelevant ....

Apparently Jim Kinney 
didn't think so either, and hit on the exact
same details I did.  ;)

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