Averting excessive oopses
Averting excessive oopses
Posted Nov 30, 2022 16:30 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Averting excessive oopses by farnz
Parent article: Averting excessive oopses
> Absolutely - and automating admin is not, in itself, a sign that you're going for the "herd of cattle" phase. It's still valuable to automate repeated jobs for pets.
> The point of "herd of cattle" is that there's a continuum from the "pet" (e.g. my laptop), where all admin is done by hand, as a careful operation,
Even with a single, "pet" computer, automating admin where possible just makes sense. My /usr/local/bin has a few scripts (I ought to write more) that do assorted things like creating lvm volumes to assist my weekly backups/emerges, and there's plenty of stuff I ought to do regularly, that scripts would help with.
Cheers,
Wol