> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 11:38:54AM -0700, Blosser, Jeremy wrote:
> >Lastly, bash has been ported to windoze already by the Cygnus
> folks... even
> >better tho (for NT at least), is 4NT (JPSoft).
>
> If 4NT is better, it would depend on your definition of `better',
> I guess :-)
> If you wanted to run bash scripts, bash would definitely be
> better, but there
> are surely cases where 4NT is better as well.
4NT is the bomb! I write 4NT scripts for doing just about anything.
In fact, coupled with some resource kit utilities, it was 4NT that I used to
distribute NTPrime to all those US WEST machines in a matter of only hours.
Oh well. I do remember showing the script I wrote to the US WEST security
team and they were just boggled by it. None of them had ever heard of 4NT
there I guess.
It started out because when I was doing "legitimate" work for US WEST,
rolling out a few thousands of new computers, I wrote little 4NT batch jobs
to send out minor file updates to machines already deployed (they kept
changing the final spec of the software image even in the middle of the
deployment...typical). It was great. I put in logging to keep track of
which machines were unreachable so it would try those again later, generate
logs of the successes, etc.
I seem to recall posting a message to this list about using 4NT to deploy
NTPRIME, along with some choice resource kit utilities like the remote
command service and netsvc.
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