[OpenAFS-devel] Re: "aklog -version" in 1.4.1?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, April 10, 2006 08:34:17 PM -0700 Adam Megacz 
<megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> If a collaborator at one of these other AFS sites has troubles
> aklogging

Then you should send them to their local administrators, who know more than 
a little about AFS and who actually control the software involved.  If one 
of my users has trouble talking to your cell, I want to hear "I'm having 
trouble talking to cell FOO at Berkeley", not "please install version XYZ 
of program BAR on my machine because some bozo at another site said I need 
that version".

Because, see, my answer to the former will be to tell then what switches to 
pass to afslog and/or to push out whatever changes are needed to make your 
cell work with our existing configuration.  Whereas my answer to the latter 
will be "No, tell me what you're really trying to do", which costs at least 
an extra round trip to the user.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA