[cobalt-users] Re: Rebuttal {from digest}

[Joe Kerns <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> [saturday-morning-rant]
> Okay, I've read your position, and I even understand it.  I hope you'll
> give me the common courtesy of reading mine:
> <SNIP>
> [/saturday-morning-rant]
>
> Boy that felt so good I may do it every Saturday <smile>.
>
> Jeff

Preach it, brotha!

I'm no incredible resource, but the 1 thing I gathered pretty quickly, was that the best way you learn something is - do it, find it and do it, or just try it and see how if it works (prolly not on a production machine!!).

One other thing that left an indelible mark very early on in my Linux/Sysad journey(still not very far along in this journey, btw), was this:

RTFM

Let me pontificate just a moment...

R = Read
T = The
F = F**king (Fine for you nicer types)
M = Manual

notice it is in caps, which means that you are being shouted at and there isn't one of the stupid :-) things, so this is a BIG deal.

What that meant to me was that prior to asking my question to a bunch of folks that had done my ever so usual commonplace task many many times before is I would prolly seem to be a serious lazy bastard for not at least trying to make it work first.

One thing you can count on, is that your answer is out there. It's a big friggin Internet, and if you spend a few minutes searching (kb.cobalt.com, php.net, mysql.com, apache.org, freshmeat.com, what the heck - try altavista.com or northernlight.com, etc.) you will come up
with something to try. Then after trying a solution a few times, if it doesn't work, send your question.

One other quick thing, make a copy before you touch something. I completely hosed up my httpd.conf on a new RAQ2 that I am setting up. But I had a good copy so I swapped names and things were fine and I was able to figure out what I screwed up.  Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy. I had
never made the change before, but I had a known good copy to rely on.

Be That Self-Reliant Hero!

Joe

PS You are right, Jeff. That was nice...