10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier

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CowboyRobot writes "Tom Limoncelli has a piece in 'Queue' summarizing the Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology's list of how to make software that is easy to install, maintain, and upgrade. FTA: '#2. DON'T make the administrative interface a GUI. System administrators need a command-line tool for constructing repeatable processes. Procedures are best documented by providing commands that we can copy and paste from the procedure document to the command line.'"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F12%2F23%2F1858236%2F10-Dos-and-Donts-To-Make-Sysadmins-Lives-Easier%3Ffrom%3Dfb) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=10+Dos+and+Don'ts+To+Make+Sysadmins'+L ives+Easier%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fe90i2p)
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