Thu, Peter Lister Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it just me, or has this list has gone deathly quiet in the past
> few months?
>
> Anyway... has someone more expert than me created perl5 modules for
> the AFS libraries? Is anyone planning to do so? Is Transarc planning
> to do so? I'd love to (re)write all my favourite system management
> scripts without firing off lots of vos, fs, and pts and then parsing
> their results. For that matter, I'd quite like to rewrite vos, fs
> and pts, since I've never been a fan of their syntax or output
> styles.
This note may be only marginally related, but I figured I'd fire it
off anyway. We have the start of a perl5 module interface into libdce
(DCE/DFS); right now, enough functions are coded to support our daily
administrative needs (sec_login_* and sec_rgy_* calls). More
functions are on the plate to be added as time permits and need
dictates.
If anyone is looking into doing a perl5 module for AFS, they may find
it instructional (ie. learn from our mistakes) to look at our DCE
module. Then again, maybe not. Either way, it's available from
http://www.larc.nasa.gov/LSS/ABSTRACT/LSS-1995-0012.html
Travis
