Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>I'm interested in hearing what folks think it should have had. What
*>were you expecting to see in such a book?
-A section on managing such practical things as disks, logs, system files
-A more complete look at managing users with Perl.
-A section on managing Perl installations, modules, multiple installations
for developers, how to use and navigate CPAN/CPAN.pm
-A section on systems montioring with Perl, tivoli, micromuse, mon, etc.
all of which can be managed with Perl.
-A section on how to acquire code and hack it for your own purposes. How
to recognise good code from bad and how to leave good scripts behind for
your SA posterity.
-A section on how to approach multi-platform system management with Perl,
e.g. something that will run on all of them from HP-UX, Solaris, BSD to
WinX and maybe the Mac as the random oddity.
-System security tweaking with Perl with tools that already exist.
-Anything that an actual working SA might use.
-Code that would pass Schwern's litmus test.
"5. TCP/IP Name Services
Host Files
NIS, NIS+, and WINS
Domain Name Service (DNS)
Module Information for This Chapter
References for More Information"
Under that chapter heading only one of them is TCP/IP. The section on
sendmail was misleading as it perhaps promised to go through some sendmail
management with Perl only to bore one with how to send mail. "MacOS
process control"? Hello, I use a mac but managing users on mac for an SA
is about .5% of the population and certainly doesn't warrant prime time
coverage. All of the sections were either superficial or went on a tangent
without any firm base. I was told this was supposed to be a beginners book
but it would be even worse if that were true.
The book has an identity crisis much like APP did.
btw- Congratulations and Welcome to ORA Nathan :)
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