System Administration with Python -- documentation?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	steve at ferg.org [SMTP:steve at ferg.org]
> I'd like to suggest Python as a useful tool for our (NT and Unix)
> System Administrators.
> 
> Ideally, there would be a book called something like "System
> Administration with Python" or "Python for System Administrators", and
> I could just recommend that book. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to
> be such a book in print.  (I think there is a need here that O'Reilly
> should jump on!)
> 
> I have found the "System Administration" category of the "Python
> Cookbook".  It has some useful material, but of course it is not
> designed to give systematic and comprehensive coverage of all of the
> tasks that a system administrator would like to do with Python.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for materials on the subject of
> Python for System Administrators?  Online materials?  Chapters from
> books?  Anything?
 
Mark Lutz's "Programming Python", 2nd edition has a 200+ page section on
system administration with Python.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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