Hacker News Reader

My golden rule of sys admin is if you can't fix it, you reformat and replace it.

If you reproduce the error, congrats, now you get to figure out where to file the bug report with reproduction steps.

My golden rule of sys admin is that anything on a Linux based OS can be fixed. Preferably without a reboot.

Though a friend of mine once discovered that it's a bad idea to force remove glibc (on a non BusyBox distro, of course).

God, yes. If all you know is reboot & reinstall (bad habits probably brought from the windows world where you generally can't do anything else), you'll never get past the basics.

Reinstalling broken Linux systems has been my go-to technique for 20-odd years. It shouldn't take any time at all to get them back up and running, because all the installation and deployment is automated.

I've never tried Windows but I've heard it's a faff to do this. Good to hear it's catching up, though!

> My golden rule of sys admin is that anything on a Linux based OS can be fixed. Preferably without a reboot.

Is it worth your time, though?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com