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I agree, in spirit. Setting up an app server, a web server, a MySQL database, or a cron job is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. There are a lot of complex sysadmin tasks -- running a BIND server, an email server, a Cassandra cluster, etc. -- but that's not what the majority of developers are doing.

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I don't understand it, but as an SA there's also a lot of people who are incapable of thinking 5 minutes ahead to the next problem - which is also baffling because its pretty much the same as programming.

You setup a cronjob, did you code the script well, who does is notify, how do we know when it fails, what's the recovery strategy?

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