“As a system administrator, there are two ways you can interact
with users: force them to follow the rules or encourage them with
tools and guidelines. I prefer the second approach, as I think
people generally want to do the right thing. Also, if people don’t
follow the rules at your company, that is a management problem, not
a computer problem. Therefore, I prefer to concentrate my attention
on helpful tools and scripts, which is exactly what I did recently
to solve a typical system administrator problem.“My company has a Linux cluster with a terabyte of attached
storage. Over time we noticed the head node was becoming more
overloaded. Inspection of the system showed that users were
starting dozens of copies of the du utility to determine disk space
usage…”
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