[Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all users?

[David Froble]

Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax
>> Sent: 07-Jan-16 2:28 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Cc: Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all
>> users?
>>
>> On 2016-01-07 18:52:21 +0000, Kerry Main said:
>>
>>> Good luck ..
>> You of all people should be clamoring about this, because otherwise
>> Stark Gaming owns this whole mass-deployment mess.
>>
> Multi-platform, multi-vendor config management in the DC was a mess
> when I started at DEC carrying a tool case fixing PDP8's.
> 
> The sad state of affairs is that it has not gotten any better even today.
> 
> Config mgmt. and integration with the service desk will be one of the focus 
> areas for our solution.

You then need to contact a young lady in Montreal named Denise Gore.  After I 
mentioned what a disaster plan should be, she went to work.  When I read the 
finished document, I was very highly impressed.  No, extremely impressed. 
Actually, I felt a bit incompetent.  She produced a document, designed to be 
updated as required, that specified every step to totally re-build the IT 
system.  Including copies of license PAKs, names of software and versions, and 
phone numbers of who to call at every step along the way.  What HW was required, 
and not just the computers,  but comm gear, and everything else.  She also kept 
the document up to date.

I'm sure there are other organizations that do the same.  My fears are that too 
many don't.