On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:10:07PM +0100, Kae Verens wrote:
>conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> >>would formatting the drives and reinstalling the system be out of the
> >>question?
> >
> >Ah yes, the sledgehammer approach. :-)
>> definitely!
>> and why not? personally, I would prefer to run a class starting from the
> exact same state each time. If you are on a system which has been in use
> for a year already, then there will be inevitable changes which mean
> that you will not be teaching from the same state next time.
>its a hell of alot more effort, that would be great if he had imaged the
server once he set it up and had it all configured as he liked last
year. then just do the updates. But...given thats not the case you run
into all sorts of fiddly things you forgot how you sorted last year and
so on, personally i'd just disable the accounts as has been
suggested(we've accounts going back to the mid 90's or so), seems to
work just fine.[apart from freebsd puts user's in the uid space 100 -
999 and debian reserves that space for services.....]
Ian.
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