Would it be fair to say that if the people running the monitoring either:
> - don't understand their own output well enough to tell the
> difference between the kernel and kernel-debug packages,
> - don't understand the difference between an installed RPM and
> a running kernel,
> - can't be bothered to sanity check their results before emailing
> sites,
>
> then they really shouldn't be threatening anyone, let alone a Tier 1,
> with disconnection?
>
last time there was a bug that generated an immediate response from
sites cutting themselves off the grid we were accused of being paranoid
by the management now we have the management threatening us if we don't
apply patches. It is a better situation perhaps. Maybe we should just
tweak it. :-)
cheers
alessandra
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