[K12OSN] Re: smbldap-installer reinstall failure (Robert Moskowitz)

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Aug 24 21:08:40 UTC 2006


Going back to an earlier life:  Chyrsler IT support circa Windows 3.0....

Matt Oquist wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:59:55 -0400
>> From: "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Re: smbldap-installer reinstall failure (Robert Moskowitz)
>>     
>
>   
>>> You should 'rm -rf /var/lib/ldap/*' before you re-run the
>>> smbldap-installer. BEWARE! This deletes your current databases! (But
>>> no the backups.)
>>>   
>>>       
>> And I no longer have any database, it seems.  the install fails.  ldap 
>> won't start, the /var/lib/ldap directory is empty....
>>
>> Is it time to just reinstall all of Centos????
>>     
>
> That's probably the most direct route to a working system. We could
> probably figure out how to fix it, but it's easier just to blow it
> away. (This is the lesson taught to us all by Windows. "Why repair
> when you can just restart?")
I told my manager that one of the BEST features of Windows was the three 
finger salute.

Why?

It lowered user expectations.  They EXPECTED the system to hang.

No more of this 24x7 mainframe stuff.....





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