Timeline for When an IT administrator needs help handling an issue with one of the user accounts she manages, can she ask a question here?
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| Oct 14, 2015 at 22:54 | comment | added | Zoredache |
restoring the system to a known-good state ... is not a good solution in this case. - Why? The sysadmin could simply restore to a temporary location, and then compare directories. That would give you the same information you got from the find command in that stackoverflow answer you seemed to like.
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 5:11 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | ...which gets us back to the system's owner knowing their system. In that case, they would nab a copy of your critical data and then restore to a known food state. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 5:08 | comment | added | abcd | for what it's worth, restoring the system to a known-good state -- i.e., the most recent back-up -- is not a good solution in this case. back-ups are made once a day. there's a lot of work i did on the day when this problematic package was installed that i don't want to lose. but i think this underscores why this question doesn't work here. that is the sort of answer an IT admin would provide. and it's a bad one for this question. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 4:15 | comment | added | abcd | yeah, fair enough. i don't care too much to fight for this question here, as it does seem to be on-topic for a number of other SE sites. but i figured i'd fight for it a little. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 4:14 | vote | accept | abcd | ||
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 4:14 | history | answered | EEAAMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |