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By Noah Gift, Jeremy Jones
August 2008
Pages: 456
ISBN 10: 0-596-51582-0 |
ISBN 13: 9780596515829
Press Release
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially for Linux and Unix. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient way to handle them. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems.
Full Description
Each chapter in Python for Unix and Linux System Administration presents a particular administrative issue, such as concurrency or data backup, and presents Python solutions through hands-on examples. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems. Discover how this language can help you:
- Read text files and extract information
- Run tasks concurrently using the threading and forking options
- Get information from one process to another using network facilities
- Create clickable GUIs to handle large and complex utilities
- Monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically
- Master the IPython Interactive Python shell to replace or augment Bash, Korn, or Z-Shell
- Integrate Cloud Computing into your infrastructure, and learn to write a Google App Engine Application
- Solve unique data backup challenges with customized scripts
- Interact with MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, Postgres, Django ORM, and SQLAlchemy
With this book, you'll learn how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and write code that runs equally well on multiple Unix platforms. You'll also learn about several Python-related technologies that will make your life much easier.
Featured customer reviews
Great Book for SysAdmins, November 03 2008
When I got this book, I was just starting to use Python as a solution to everyday problems as a Sys Admin.
Although it has some advanced sections, I was able to put in place a lot of the examples right away.
This is probably one of the best books I have used to solve system administration issues regarding a programming language (After the Bash Cookbook).
Log files, automated configuration updates, parsing for information and even a new shell (ipython), are some of the cool stuff these guys deliver.
I have even recommended the book to non system administrators as it doesn't assume you know the language inside out.
Media reviews
"If you are an administrator, project organizeer or data monkey (a term for system admins who push files in a digital video shop) you should check out this book. "
-- Lee McKusick, Peninsula Linux Users' Group
"If you are a Python advocate who is also responsible on occasion with managing your home or company computers, the book provides enough ideas and enthusiasm to jumpstart that currently manual system administrator task that begs to be automated."
-- Mike Riley, Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk
"This fabulous book will help you to read text files and extract information, run tasks using threading and forking options, get clickable GUI utilities, monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically, master the IPython shell...and much more."
-- Nadia Russ, Wonderpedia
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