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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 understa
by acveilleux 12y ago
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.
- falcolas 12y agoI 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.