Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, 1st Edition by Noah Gift; Jeremy Jones Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Pub Date: September 2, 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51582-9 Pages: 656 http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596515829 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: "Michelle Lowman" >> Is anyone here using Python in system administration? Better yet, >> is anyone also writing about it? > > The Gentoo folks have it so that their entire package management > system is built in Python. That's fairly heavy system administration > , right? The main problem with using Python for stuff like this is > that it's not guaranteed to be there, while /bin/sh is. (You see a > lot of tired old Unix admins griping about the Linux users putting > bash-specific things in their scripts, for example....) > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss