Something I hate in my job is that sometimes I have a problem with an appliance, and no easy mean to diagnose it. It’s already bad enough when it’s because those are designed from scratch to be restricted (Looking at you, Cisco and your god-damned IOS), but it’s worst when they are running on a standard Linux/Unix host to which we don’t have access. All the commands I need are right there, I know it, I know what I need to use, where to find it, but I can’t because the editor does not want its users to access operating system underneath.
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