[tinco]

Eh, the sysadmins would be monitoring eachother. I'm not saying they should have a manager that keeps their commands in check.

And yes a change management process is very nice and all, and I suppose that at Amazon no line is entered into a root sshd shell without each character being vetted thrice, but at your regular shop you can bet that there's loads of admins that type "ps aux" three times before getting it right. Not that that's terrible, but if you want to look at system administration as an engineering problem you have to know what's going on.