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[Jay O'Connor]

In article <3ED222F6.93D85E75 at engcorp.com>, "Peter Hansen"
<peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

> Jay O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 26 May 2003 10:07:24 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>> >> Just to add to that statement, I direct you to RedHat Linux. The
>> >> installer, and the majority of the sysadmin code, is all Python.
>> >
>> >RPM uses Python, but I'm uncertain the rest of that statement is
>> >correct. Could you provide a link to a reference for this info?
>> 
> [snip]
>> Those are the only two I have direct experience with, but it's fairly
>> easy to go trooping through the directories and find RedHat Python
>> stuff
> 
> Sure it is, but doing so doesn't in even the remotest way back up the
> claim that the "majority of the sysadmin code is Python"...


Well,  a cursory look turns up a heck of a lot of Python code in a RedHat
linux system.  I took out everything in /usr/lib/Python1.5 and
/usr/Python2.x but there is a lto of site-packages stuff that looks like
it was provided by RedHat as well.  Anaconda is the installer and there's
a lot of stuff in there for user configuration, network configuration
,etc...  A lot of basic stuff like adduser, addgroup, etc..is still going
to be written in C, but most of the tools around those utilities seem to
be written in Python

[jay at altaica jay]$ locate *.py

...

/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Caiwireless.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Catchall.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Compuserve.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Exim.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/GroupWise.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Microsoft.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Netscape.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Postfix.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Qmail.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/SMTP32.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleMatch.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Smail.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Yahoo.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/Auth.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/handle_opts.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/roster.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Autoresponder.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Crypt.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/GatewayManager.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/EncWord.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Errors.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/AfterDelivery.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Acknowledge.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Approve.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CalcRecips.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Cleanse.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Replybot.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToArchive.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/MultiLogger.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Utils.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/StringIO.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/cgi.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/smtplib.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/tempfile.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/versions.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Message.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/Version.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/__init__.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/aliases.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py
/var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
/var/mailman/bin/paths.py
/var/mailman/cron/paths.py
/var/mailman/scripts/paths.py
/usr/bin/gnome-upgrade.py
/usr/bin/pydb.py
/usr/bin/pydbcmd.py
/usr/bin/pydbsupt.py
/usr/bin/kdelnk2desktop.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/custom.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/laptop.py
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/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/server.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/upgradeclass.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/upgradeonly.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/workstation.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/account_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/auth_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/bootdisk_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/bootloaderpassword_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/bootloader_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/checklist.py
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/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/congrats_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/dependencies_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/fdisk_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/firewall_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/format_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/installpath_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/iw_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/keyboard_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/language_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/language_support_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/mouse_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/network_gui.py
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/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partmethod_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/silo_gui.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/timezone_gui.py
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/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/confirm_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/constants_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/fdisk_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/firewall_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/installpath_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/keyboard_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/language_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/mouse_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/network_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partition_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partmethod_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/progress_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/silo_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/statusline_text.py
/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/timezone_text.py
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