Python in system administration?

[Michelle Lowman]

That's "an editor"; obviously, I don't edit my own work. :)

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Michelle Lowman
<michelle.lowman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Ben. Actually, I'm very aware of that book. I'm interested in
> competing with it. :)  I'm editor for one of O'Reilly's competitors, so if
> you or anyone else here at PLUG know of anyone who may be interested in
> writing a similar title, or any Linux title, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Michelle
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Ben <azlobo73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
>> wrote:
>> > From: "Michelle Lowman" <michelle.lowman at gmail.com>
>> >> 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
>> >
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