Here's a little script I was working on back in the college lab last month. I was facing a very trivial solaris administration problem. I've installed SXDE 1/08 on 120 systems in one of our biggest computer labs long back (more on how I did that later). Now I needed a way to do certain tasks on each of those systems like changing the boot order, changing the solaris GRUB splash image, setting the hostname for each system based on its current IP address...,more.
The standard Perl distribution comes with a debugger, although it's really just another Perl program, perl5db.pl. Since it is just a program, I can use it as the basis for writing my own debuggers to suit my needs, or I can use the interface perl5db.pl provides to configure its actions. That's just the beginning, though. read more...
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