Lazy, lazy, lazy programming

jjhorner has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay, I'll admit, I'm lazy. I like using modules. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about what modules are available to know which ones contain the most useful tools.

Until O'Reilly's _Perl for the System Admin_ comes out, I am just plodding along, 'perldoc'ing until my fingers hurt, doing everything the honest way. I have mp3's to download, I need to conserve time!

Do any of the System Admins on this board have any favorite modules that they couldn't live without? I would like to expand my ready tool-kit, and would like some suggestions on which modules make a system admin's life easier.

For me, the Win32 modules works great for my NT/IIS boxes, and I do all of my log parsing on my own.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

jjhorner

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Re: Lazy by KM (Priest) on May 25, 2000 at 20:26 UTC
There are some of the non-standard modules and bundles I use quite often: libwww (LWP, etc...) libnet (Net::) MailTools MimeTools MIME::Lite XML::Parser IO: Actually, I could go on and on I guess :) There are really some good tools out there. Visit search.cpan.org and poke around at what is out there. Cheers, KM	[reply]
RE: Lazy, lazy, lazy programming by Tibetan_Monk (Initiate) on May 26, 2000 at 03:01 UTC
All of us Sysadmins are lazy, it comes with the trade. For winnt server administration, learn the Win32 modules inside out "Great book is Windows NT Win32 Perl Programming". Of course the almighty CGI.pm module and libwww. For most of our security reports I use Socket::IO. overview all Win32 modules CGI.pm Libwww Socket::IO	[reply]
Re: Lazy by perlcgi (Hermit) on May 25, 2000 at 20:31 UTC
These are not modules, but you'll probably enjoy mucho none the less Check-out http://doriath.perl.com/ppt/	[reply]
Re: Lazy by Maclir (Curate) on May 26, 2000 at 01:52 UTC
In my opinion (for what it is worth), CGI.pm is a great alternative to the CGI:: set. Date::Manip is another good one, particularly if you are generating letters or stuff to people, and you want the dates to look professional. DBI (and whatever DBD:: you need) is absolutely essential for any data base access - and the architecture of the DBI / DBD modules are truly innovative. Ken	[reply]