Posted by Michael Fesser on 02/26/07 00:30

..oO(walterbyrd)

>> How do you define "sys admin task"?
>
>Actually, that is not easy for me to define. I can give examples:
>[...]
>
>Please don't actually tell me how to do any of that. I'm just
>wondering if those sorts of things can be done.

Yep, definitely. If you are able to call system functions you can do
absolutely everything. In some cases a particular scripting engine can
make things easier by providing pre-built extensions, for example DB
access, LDAP or RPCs. For all other things there's at least system(),
exec() or something like that to do it "by hand".

Micha

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