Re: experience: installing on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10)

["David A. Bandel" <..hidden..>]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:04 PM, H.S. <..hidden..> wrote:
> Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote:

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>
> I should have remembered. Actually I kept a log of the installation
> steps. But it appears I lost the file someplace *feeling embarrassed*. I
> was remotely and it was very lated in the night (early morning) and
> things got a bit mixed up. Sorry.
>

I'd like to add an OT here:
if you are going to install or modify things, I always use this:
script foo
foo being any filename I want to use.  Then, everything that goes onto
the screen (except vi sessions) appear in foo -- all my commands and
errors and all the output from them.  Can be very helpful.  A simple
exit will stop script.

When I had several junior admins working for me, script was called on
root login with the date as the argument.  Then if something was
hosed, I could retrace what was done.

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David A. Bandel
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