M. Sacks said
Automating System Administration with Perl presents many relevant use cases for using Perl in a modern systems environment. Edelmann brings Perl up to speed with modern system administration use cases that are applicable to modern system infrastructures.
Advanced use cases for using Perl to automate tasks for Email, SQL Databases, Networking, and Security, while backing them up with general best practices for writing Perl scripts, something often overlooked.
The examples coupled with the principles for Automating System Administration with Perl offers a value which cannot be achieved only with code examples or a pre-made application.
Tobias Oetiker said
On times I think that having books on Unix or current computing topics in general is an oddity at best. Isn't all the information we need readily available via Google, some blogs and for Perl CPAN? But then again as I was reviewing the second installment of Davids Otter book I found my self quite often amazed at all the little gotchas and tricks David added in. There are so many tools available today that this book severs as an invaluable guide through the jungle of possibilities in doing efficient System Administration. David does not praise a single solution to all problems. He rather gives detailed advice on succeeding in various scenarios. Yes the book is also about doing sysadmining with perl, but it comes natural and is in no way a language advocacy piece on the finer points of perl programming. It is both wide and deep by providing detailed examples in actual working code. I can highly recommend this book for both seasoned as well aspiring master craftsmen.
Earl Gay said
This book has a lot of good tidbits that you'll find useful as a System Administrator. There are a ton of tools out there for any job in Perl, but this book helps point out some of the better ones and the best way to go about using them. The author has a good style of writing that makes it a lot easier to read.
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