[Vlaanderen] Perl for system administrators

[Jonathan Schollen]

Thx Wendy.
Still so much to learn :-)


>From: "vlaanderen.pm at wendy.org" <vlaanderen.pm at wendy.org>
>To: "Jonathan Schollen" <jonathan_schollen at hotmail.com>,vlaanderen at pm.org
>Subject: Re: [Vlaanderen] Perl for system administrators
>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:47:25 +0200
>
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>At 10:33 14-9-2006, Jonathan Schollen wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >It was a splendid meeting yesterday. It was great to meet all of you guys
> >(and girls ;-)
>
>Liz and I had a good time too.  We always enjoy the Amsterdam.pm meetings, 
>nice people.  This meeting was no less nice, really.  As always, a nice 
>mixture of experience, background, work, characters.  Perl always seems to 
>find its way to places where one would not expect it (glass domes, who 
>would think of that?).  It doesn't happen often that I meet Perl developers 
>with a rotten attitude and it didn't happen yesterday.
>
>I did like the surroundings very much.  I have been in Leuven before, but 
>never like this, in the evening on a terrace, surrounded by party people, 
>soccer on the background, good beer, laptops within reach.
>
>
> >I can hardly wait 'till the next meeting.
>
>Same here.
>
>
> >Besides that, I also wanted to pop a quick question on system 
>adminitration
> >(mainly Windows).
> >Can someone tell me a good book on the subject?
> >I found the eBook on "Perl for system administrators" (by David N
> >Blank-Edelman; O'Reilly press). Is this any good?
> >
> >Thx,
> >
> >Jonathan
>
>I do remember reading parts of it.  But I can't remember what I read.  So I 
>can't give any recommendation.  So just Google for the reviews ( 
>http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=%22perl+for+system+administration%22+review&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta= 
>)
>
>Of course the first one is biased:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlsysadm/
>
>The second one goes into the book in more detail, and concludes with a 
>positive mark:
>http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/296
>
>This one says that there is quite a bit of attention to MS systems.
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/reviews/showproduct.php?product=579
>
>I think that you might want to look at "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems", 
>also by O'Reilly, since that is aimed at Windows NT system administrators.  
>The reviews are mixed, though.  Too basic.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/
>
>Good luck with searching...
>
>Kind regards,
>Wendy
>
>