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There's certainly a plus side to doing administrivia, if it can provide you with implicit feedback in how your doing. With your logs, if you fully automated ev

by mise 15y ago

There's certainly a plus side to doing administrivia, if it can provide you with implicit feedback in how your doing. With your logs, if you fully automated everything, you might not spot a problem with the server that you otherwise may not have noticed for weeks. Let's say you have one task to complete upon each signup to your product - at least you get a real sense of the rate of signups. (Although in discussing these thing I get the feeling of being pedantic, as I don't know how important they really are - a feeling I get a lot while reading HN.)

francoisdevlin 15y ago
Of course, it makes sense to know your tool chain as well. This is a problem that could have been solved in 5 minutes with log rotate. Know your tools!
- ailon 15y ago
  It's not a web server log.
  - count 15y ago
    logrotate will work with any text file.
    - ailon 15y ago
      It's not a text file and it's not the point. The specific task doesn't matter. And even if someone spent 6 hours only because he/she didn't know of some tool that might accomplish the task faster it's still 6 hours :)