CentOS - Oct 2017 - how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

On Wednesday 04 October 2017 13:39:30 Mark Haney wrote:
> I'll end this by saying, I hope the production servers you have
don't
> provide critical services that could jeopardize the lives of people.?
> I'd ask who you work for, to make sure I avoid them at all costs, but
> I'm not sure I'd be told.
The company I work for, and the livelihood of the hundreds of employees depend 
on my servers. In the 30 years I've been in the industry, I've never had
problems as you've described

On 10/04/2017 08:46 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 13:39:30 Mark Haney wrote:
>> I'll end this by saying, I hope the production servers you have
don't
>> provide critical services that could jeopardize the lives of people.
>> I'd ask who you work for, to make sure I avoid them at all costs,
but
>> I'm not sure I'd be told.
> The company I work for, and the livelihood of the hundreds of employees
depend
> on my servers. In the 30 years I've been in the industry, I've
never had
> problems as you've described
> _______________________________________________
In 30 years you've obviously learned nothing about Unix/Linux.? I'd be 
embarrassed to claim that length of IT service and do something as 
catastrophically stupid as what you're doing now.? Just because it 
'hasn't been a problem' doesn't mean it won't.? Seriously,
if it were
me, I'd either retire or hire someone better than you with production 
servers.

You'd think, with your supposed experience, you wouldn't use the
'well
it's never happened before' as a viable reason for doing something.? 
That's ignorant, immature and far more dangerous for your organization 
than I would be happy with as a CEO or Manager. That attitude is never 
excusable.

This conversation is over. You refuse to listen to literally EVERYONE 
ELSE ON THE LIST and therefore not worth anyone else's time trying to 
help you.? (Especially mine.)

I showed my daughter this thread, she's a freshman in the Honors College 
of Engineering at Virginia Tech majoring in Math and CpE, has been using 
linux since she was old enough to sit at a keyboard and even she was 
appalled.? If that doesn't tell you something, nothing will.

Do us all a favor and don't post to the list unless you are willing to 
listen to rational human beings.

-- 
Mark Haney
Network Engineer at NeoNova
919-460-3330 option 1
mark.haney at neonova.net
www.neonova.net

Ok, folks,

   I have not followed this thread since the first few emails... but has
anyone suggested the SCL repo? I see mysql 5.6 and 5.7 there.

       mark "this is not the flamewar I'm looking for. I'll move
along...."

Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> writes:
> On 10/04/2017 08:46 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 13:39:30 Mark Haney wrote:
>>> I'll end this by saying, I hope the production servers you have
don't
>>> provide critical services that could jeopardize the lives of
people.
>>> I'd ask who you work for, to make sure I avoid them at all
costs, but
>>> I'm not sure I'd be told.
>> The company I work for, and the livelihood of the hundreds of employees
depend
>> on my servers. In the 30 years I've been in the industry, I've
never had
>> problems as you've described
>> _______________________________________________
>
> In 30 years you've obviously learned nothing about Unix/Linux.? I'd
be
> embarrassed to claim that length of IT service and do something as
> catastrophically stupid as what you're doing now.? Just because it
> hasn't been a problem' doesn't mean it won't.? Seriously,
if it were
> me, I'd either retire or hire someone better than you with production
> servers.
>
> You'd think, with your supposed experience, you wouldn't use the
'well
> it's never happened before' as a viable reason for doing
something.?
> That's ignorant, immature and far more dangerous for your organization
> than I would be happy with as a CEO or Manager. That attitude is never
> excusable.
What do you propose as an alternative?

You can test something, like some software, over and over again in any
way that comes to mind, and at some point, you may conclude that it
seems to be working and may go into production.  That conclusion is
solely based upon "it hasn?t happened yet", simply because whatever
bug
of what you?re testing hasn?t shown any effect yet.

Following your argumentation, you would never have a reason to put
something into production, or to use it.
> This conversation is over. You refuse to listen to literally EVERYONE
> ELSE ON THE LIST and therefore not worth anyone else's time trying to
> help you.? (Especially mine.)
Who else?
> I showed my daughter this thread, she's a freshman in the Honors
> College of Engineering at Virginia Tech majoring in Math and CpE, has
> been using linux since she was old enough to sit at a keyboard and
> even she was appalled.? If that doesn't tell you something, nothing
> will.
What was she appalled about?
> Do us all a favor and don't post to the list unless you are willing to
> listen to rational human beings.

-- 
"Didn't work" is an error.