From: "Michelle Lowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
