They still making PCLs? I thought they ran out of prefamulated amulite years ago.

Unix is meant to be difficult - it keeps idiots out of the datacentre.

Ha ha, only serious.

Points 1,2,6,7 are exactly why you want this stuff in a DB: backed up, replicated off-site, consistent, and up-to-date.
If you want a hard copy, extract it from the DB and print it out (and always with a datestamp/index so you know how far out of date the ex-tree version is).

All excellent advice except one thing: Do not, ever, use spreadsheets for network configuration data. Network config matters, and shit that matters goes in a database.
Something Free like OpenNetAdmin is a very decent start; but if the OP has an unlimited budget, I'm sure there are plenty of capable commercial applications which will manage the network config much better than a Bunch Of Spreadsheets.

And that is all I have to say about that.

"...mostly persecution, misery, national alcoholism, a sense of hopelessness, and periods of vast premature loss of life."

Welcome to Scotland!

"something less portable than a bag of lead bricks"
Lead bricks and no bag?

Aaaand what about all the people saved by not wasting money doing cancer screens on 20 year olds?

Cthulhu waits.
In the cans.
In your cupboard.

You can use a microwave as well - it's a bit faster.

# man pkill :)

No.

If your solution really is superior, but implementing it and maintaining it is beyond the abilities of your team, then... you need a better team.

Anyone caught accepting or excusing mediocrity deserves all the sub-standard 'solutions' they inevitably get. Your team should have the skills required to implement and maintain the superior solution.

Tru fax.

Flash player also creates a ~/.macromedia directory...

[ilikejam@localhost ~]$ vi .emacs

s/your/you\'re/