SCN: Responsibility (was: Re: A Preliminary Review of SSL)

[J. Johnson]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Rod Clark wrote:

> > If the users on /home0 are pinched for space, why don't they just
> > delete (or compress) a few files? Why can't these users just work
> > matters out themselves?
> 
> JJ, 
> 
>    The users as an amorphous group of people can't do system
> administration. ...

  But they can delete files.  (And the biggest offenders also can compress
files.)  They don't need a system administrator's help on that, do they?

And yes, there are other possible "solutions", like throwing more disk
space at the problem, but I like this one because it is the "sort it out
yourselves" approach recommended by the Board. 


> .... we do need Operations management who has (or have)
> a coherent plan to take SCN's systems from this kind of
> situation to a well managed one.
> 
  I PRESENTED A PLAN!!

It matters not how well Operations plans and self-organizes and
coordinates--without the support of the Board it all falls apart if
anyone opposes it.  

As the Board didn't like what I proposed, let the Board come up with a
better plan.  

=== JJ =================================================================

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