From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 18: 4: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DB737B41D for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GQ7SEH01.8RA; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 03:03:53 +0100 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 03:03:52 +0100 From: Alfatrion X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Alfatrion X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5854596665.20020120030352@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? In-Reply-To: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> References: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello rene, Saturday, January 19, 2002, 8:58:11 PM, you wrote: rxn> So I've learned how to do basic scripting in /bin/sh. But boy-oh-boy is that rxn> language arcane. ;-) rxn> What other language do you guys advise for system administration tasks such rxn> as rxn> * checking if a remote host is up rxn> * pumping files & RAM data through external tools rxn> * calling scripts written in the same language on a remote machine, to rxn> 'pickup' data that was pumped to that machine by a local script. rxn> My wishlist for the language, prioritized with most important first: rxn> * portability! to other UNIXes, and even Windoze. rxn> * low system demands - it needs to run on lowend boxes aswell rxn> * clear organization of any 'plugins' (which need to be replicated on other rxn> machines aswell) rxn> * a nice errorhandling & logging system rxn> I could really use some clues here. PHP comes into mind, but maybe there are rxn> other better options? Two good choices are: Pyton and Java. The later is good for portabily to other type of systems. I woud stay away from Perl (stay off it for awail and you forget how to use it) or C(++) (You are asking for thouble, if your not a programmer) I beleave there is a document on freebsd.org about this topic. Don't know here it stands. Well if you wanna do it though the web, then your other choice are JSP (Java Server Pages), ASP (microsoft but i don't think you gonna find this). rxn> Friendly greets, rxn> Rene Veerman rxn> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org rxn> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Best regards, Alfatrion mailto:alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message