Python for SysAdmins
David B Terrell
dbt at meat.net
Mon Sep 24 13:17:56 EDT 2001
François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> says:
> [David Cinege]
>
>> On Sunday 23 September 2001 1:04, A.A wrote:
>
>> > I'm contemplating writing a (python) module that contains functions
>> > necessary for common system administration tasks.
>
>> Hmm probably not, as very few sys admin tasks fit inside of any type
>> generic scope.
>
> Mark Burgess's `cfengine' defines a generic enough scope for sysadmin tasks,
> in my opinion. I once rewrote those parts of `cfengine' I needed in Python,
> and found this experience pretty satisfactory. Python is much, much more
> maintainable than C for the task (`cfengine' has been a bit flaky for me).
> As the thing is driving a lot of IO, Python is speedy enough as well...
Now that sounds interesting. Is the code available anywhere?
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