© copyright 2002
by Marc Barrot
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Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
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Perl For System Administration I'm currently attending David Blank-Edelman's Perl For System Administration tutorial at Usenix 2002.  David is a gifted and experienced teacher, listening to him the whole day is a priviledge.The first part of his tutorial largely draws from his O'Reilly book. I love the part about 'safe scripting'. This afternoon's part is even better, David just calls it story telling, but he manages to transmit a lot of his own experience in it.
The other nice thing in this tutorial is that it's full of very accurate and useful Perl sample code, that addresses almost any concern of a regular sysadmin.
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Wrap Up on Yesterdays's Tutorial My laptop's disk let me down yesterday. It's now full of bad blocks. This prevented me from posting for most of yesterday's afternoon. I've managed to keep current bad blocks in check, and restored a working system partition, but this may not hold for long. Once they have gained a large enough beachhead, it gets difficult to repel a bad blocks invasion. Anyway, the second part of yesterday's System And Network Monitoring tutorial at the Usenix conference was focused on monitoring packages such as MRTG, Cricket, BigBrother and their ilk, plus what John Sellens call a case study. More on those tools in my upcoming SNMP OPML resources directory.John is a real SNMP-head. He's written a very simple open source utility, Thresh, to leverage SNMP for system monitoring. I like Thresh because you can see John's experience as a sysadmin through it. It is very 'real world' oriented. What I think John's presentation lacks is proper focus on security: to my liking, he is not paranoïd enough. More on this subject in my next post.
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