Cultured Perl: Automating UNIX System Administration with Perl
By Teodor Zlatanov2004-07-15
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• Read Ted's other Perl articles in the "Cultured Perl" series on developerWorks.
• Visit CPAN for all the Perl modules you ever wanted.
• Perl.com has Perl information and related resources.
• Get the module cfengine, the all-in-one UNIX administration tool.
• UNIX System Administration Handbook, 3rd Edition, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein (Prentice Hall 2000), describes many different aspects of system administration, from basic topics to UNIX esoterica, and includes explicit coverage of four popular systems: Solaris 2.7, Red Hat Linux 6.2, HP-UX 11.00, and FreeBSD 3.4.
• Programming Perl Third Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant (O'Reilly & Associates 2000) is the best guide to Perl today, up-to-date with 5.005 and 5.6.0.
• Perl for System Administration: Managing multi-platform environments with Perl, by David N. Blank-Edelman (O'Reilly & Associates 2000) is a great summary of different tools and techniques written in Perl for system administration. Emphasis is placed on portability.
• UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition , by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly & Mike Loukides (O'Reilly & Associates 1997) is a great guide to getting started with UNIX shells and related tools. It's a little dated, but still excellent.
• Visit O'Reilly & Associates: publishers of Programming Perl and many other fine books.
• For related articles by this author, see "Cultured Perl: One-liners 101" and "Cultured Perl: Perl 5.6 for C and Java programmers" ondeveloperWorks.
• Browse more Linux resources on developerWorks.
Tutorial Pages:
» A Centralized Configuration File Strategy
» The Tool Cfengine
» Configuration File Management
» Task Automation
» Summary
» Resources
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