Python in system administration?

[Michelle Lowman]

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
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> >
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