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

In reply to Lazy, lazy, lazy programming by jjhorner

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