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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by acveilleux on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:29AM (#9421128)
Frankly, if you're going to rely on a magic recipe from the web for production, you should absolutely document it locally and go through the process of understanding each commands.

As a former sys admin, I did that all the time. Who the hell can remember how to convert an SSL certificate to load it into a Glassfish app server? Didn't mean I couldn't step through all commands and figure out why it did that before I loaded the new cert... And next time, I just need to go to my quick hack repo for the magic incantation.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by falcolas on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:43AM (#9421227)
I agree with this. Despite my familiarity with so many command line tools, I do forget invocations. And so I have a wiki page I share with my coworkers to share particularly useful (or correct) invocations of dangerous tools.

On a Unix based system, tar is just used so frequently and for so many purposes, that not understanding it feels a bit like working in a shop and not knowing how to use a roll of tape.

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