> Yes, because no network issue ever happened in the past with the "greybeards".
These issues, one might think, should have turned into tomes of extensive information on why they happened and how to avoid them, and become an integral part of showing the ropes to new sysadmins, or operation persons, you name them. It seems, however, that by and large the knowledge of the actual working systems does get irretrievably lost once some Kevin gets retired.
P. S. Would you be just as cavalier if lives were lost as a result of such incidents?
These issues, one might think, should have turned into tomes of extensive information on why they happened and how to avoid them, and become an integral part of showing the ropes to new sysadmins, or operation persons, you name them. It seems, however, that by and large the knowledge of the actual working systems does get irretrievably lost once some Kevin gets retired.
P. S. Would you be just as cavalier if lives were lost as a result of such incidents?