On Saturday 22 November 2003 14:45, Artur Anjos wrote:

> Yves,
>
> > would any sane DBA do that?
>
> There are a lot of insane DBA's and Users in the world.
>
> > I had situations where I missed a direct system call... and
> > customers of me aswell...
>
> If you want to do system calls, use system tools.

well sometimes you may want to make system calls without being in a
shell (or any other direct system context)... interoperability is the
word that comes to my mind...

> Customers always ask the more strange things, and they will make sure
> that you take the responsability for that.

If they pay (enough) for I can live with that.. ;-)
I think it is never bad to give possibilities to an admin. This is not
the same than enabling every plain user to click on an exe in his/her
email and destroy the entire system.

> Artur
>
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