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Re: sudo and runas
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:56:03 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: sudo and runas
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Jon,
> >
> > How about describing the symptoms?
>
> I gotta remember the verbage of that one. Short, sweet and to the point.
> It never ceases to amaze me how many times people ask for help stating
> that what they tried didn't work but totally lacking of any of the
> details of the problem (like what exactly they tried, error messages,
> example output, what they expected and what they got, etc). I usually
> use the semi smart assed question of: What was your first indication
> that it failed? But yours is shorter, more to the point and perhaps a
> little less smart assed. It still gets me though how prevelent it is for
> people to say they have a problem but neglects to give any details.
>
> (I must be getting mean :-)
Hmm, DTFS, eh?
Sorry, sorry, no more gratuitous acronyms... Bad brain, bad! ;-)
Igor
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