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Re: Perl For Windows System Administration

by Jenda (Abbot)
on Mar 13, 2003 at 13:06 UTC ( [id://242674]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl For Windows System Administration

I'm no longer an admin, but I used to be. I used Perl under Windows for:

  • user creation : create an account in windows, in Unix, in SQL server, create the home directory, copy the default content, set permissions, etc. etc. etc. (I kept forgeting at least one of the necessary tasks if I had to do this all by hand)
  • automatic download and import of data: the users needed new (advertising related) data downloaded and imported into their software each day. Can you imagine having to do this by hand?
  • various data related tasks: take this ForPro database and that text file and import it into Oracle, copy this data from Notes to Oracle, delete this, recompute that ...
  • some a little crazy things like searching for Word documents through all user and group directories and changing the paper size to A4, changing Word templates to normal documents, etc. etc. etc.

Jenda

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Re: Re: Perl For Windows System Administration
by ellem (Hermit) on Mar 14, 2003 at 03:40 UTC
    you are the greatest of all Admins... I weep from shame
    --
    ellem@optonline.net
    There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.
      I actually mean the above BTW. I am filled with shame for not doing the great things Jenda is doing
      --
      ellem@optonline.net
      There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.

        Thanks :-) I had to automate everything that was at all automatable. I'd go crazy if I had to do everything by hand. Which I almost did anyway. Thanks god I've got no lusers to look after anymore.

        Yes, I know why doesn't it print Petra. You've got no paper in the printer! No we DO NOT HAVE any US Letter printer. Or any such paper. Use A4! Of course the network doesn't work. You've unplugged the minihub! Yes, the computer is horribly slow. Pester your boss, not me! ...

        Jenda

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