On 31/01/06 19:15 +0530, Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:04, Philip Tellis wrote:
It's been a very long time since I've had to ask a question on a mailing list. The answer is either in the docs already, or on some mailing list archives. You just have to be willing to spend 4-8 hours (or more) doing some research.
If you think that that's too much, consider this:
Time for you to research: 8 man hours
Well, I cannot research on a production server. If it was a simple issue like reconfiguring some service, I would have gone through with it. But something as critical as re-installing a supposedly installed db? Noooo!
No. You research on a workstation. You then deploy on a test box, then escalate to production. To know whether a product is really installed, man rpm, particularly the -q flag.
Time for you to write the mail: 5-10minutes Time for one list member to read the mail: 5minutes Time for all 1016 list members to read the mail: 83 man hours
What's more expensive?
Since you're at the topic, how much time do you think it will take for me to intimate RH about my issue, for them to analyze it, research it and then for them to reply?
Since we are wasting time, and my ISP is flaking out, I might as well answer.
It will take RH as much time as you have paid them for. Feel free to pay the list members to do your research for you.
You might think about why so many of the erstwhile frequent posters on the list post so rarely today as well.
Devdas Bhagat