[OSM-dev] The future of sysadmin

[Tom Hughes]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707190636250.12732 at localhost.localdomain>
        Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> I can't travel to London to visit the servers, so I hope you find 
> someone who can.  In my experience, responsibilities can be 
> distributed.  There were many cases where a simple "ssh" and a 
> database restart could have helped OSM, but nobody was trusted to 
> do this.  Many could help with that (using setuid or sudo), 
> without travelling to London and without "getting root".

I'm struggling to think of a single case where a database restart
has been required, or would be required.

It's definitely the case that, especially if we can get remote console
access sorted, there is plenty that can be done without physically
going near the machines. That sounded like what Steve was saying
anyway - he seemed to be talking about needing both hardware admins
and pure sysadmins.

Tom

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