Today, we sysadmin in Hades!

At semi-regular intervals, I take off my “web developer” hat, and put on my “sysadmin hat” for a day of totally awesome system administration.

This is the worst job in the world.

I basically spend my entire day - and usually a couple days afterwards - trying to figure out why the fuck I did what I did. Why the fuck would one box use an entirely different backup script, that, oh, doesn’t even work? When the fuck did someone change database dump script? Hey, why is that box so behind on updates? And so on, and so on.

These days are like penance for all my sins: fiddling with shell scripts that are by all rights a 5-minute quick hack, but became “production”.

And yes, I’m going to hell for using a ‘300′ cliche. I don’t care any more.