On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...] but this seems like a terrible burden
to put on system administrators, particularly those who are (sometimes
proudly) averse to anything that smacks of "programming".
Thus are by definition not system administrators. There are not
supposed to be software developers but being able to deal with simple
code (shell scripts?!) is part of a sysadmins jobs.
So the solution would be "fire him and hire a new one".