System Administration with Python -- documentation?

laotseu bdesth at nospam.free.fr
Mon Nov 18 21:39:19 EST 2002


Simon Brunning wrote:
>>From:	steve at ferg.org [SMTP:steve at ferg.org]
>>I'd like to suggest Python as a useful tool for our (NT and Unix)
>>System Administrators.
>>
>>Ideally, there would be a book called something like "System
>>Administration with Python" or "Python for System Administrators", and
>>I could just recommend that book. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to
>>be such a book in print.  (I think there is a need here that O'Reilly
>>should jump on!)
>>
>>I have found the "System Administration" category of the "Python
>>Cookbook".  It has some useful material, but of course it is not
>>designed to give systematic and comprehensive coverage of all of the
>>tasks that a system administrator would like to do with Python.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions for materials on the subject of
>>Python for System Administrators?  Online materials?  Chapters from
>>books?  Anything?
> 
>  
> Mark Lutz's "Programming Python", 2nd edition has a 200+ page section on
> system administration with Python.
> 

I was just about to give the same answer.

But a book (or web page or...) just covering this specific topic, doing 
it in deep, might be A Good Thing (tm), IMHO.

Laotseu

> Cheers,
> Simon Brunning
> TriSystems Ltd.
> sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk
> 




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