On Wed 06/25/14 07:14PM -0400, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > I ended up doing very crazy root-stealing, chroot-establishing things to get > my science done in my PhD. If you prevent intelligent people from doing > their work, they are going to be your worst nightmare. Don't kid yourselves > if you think you are doing anyone favors by providing super-static OS > environments like RHEL for your users. You are just being lazy (and not the > good kind of programmer lazy).
I don't think your IT staff is lazy for saying no to some requests. It is unreasonable in the extreme to expect systems-level access on a shared production system. If you want to operate at that level, you should consider building a dedicated resource, possibly rolling cloud image or VMs. I mean, unless you are also paying the bills, managing staff time, attending weekly sysadmin meetings, and fielding support tickets. Cheers, -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Project Leader for Research Computing The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
