I'm not a network admin now. Currently I use Perl for things like: Preprocessing and archiving log files, searching for errors and unexpected messages them and mailing the result to me for review.
Indexing the files on the production, QA and development servers and generating ZIPs with the files that need to be updated. And of course lots of development related tools like generating multilanguage pages, automatic uploading of translations, code generation and such. And for some parts of the system we develop. When I was an admin I had scripts for: Creation of users (in WinNT, Unix and MSSQL, creation of directories, setting up permissions, copying initial content and so forth) Automatic download and update of data in some programs. Copying data between those programs databases and our own Oracle. And a lot small tools like for example one that changed the page size in all Word documents from US Letter to A4 (you would not believe how hard is it to explain the users we really do NOT have US Letter printers. ;-) Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
