[rescue] Scotty's advice to Geordi (was Re: Follow-Up : Changing IP address in Solaris 10)

[Phil Stracchino]

Mike Parson wrote:
> First example I can think of:
> 
> He had a cron job that ran once a minute on a box to check that the
> locally attached RAID was mounted.  If it wasn't, shut the box down into
> single-user mode.
> 
> NO ONE knew why.
> 
> It wasn't documented other than a single email he sent once saying it
> was to 'prevent corruption.'

Job security code, plain and simple.


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