From: "Joe Barr" 

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:33:02 +0000, John Cuccia wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:56:24 -0600, "Joe Barr"

> wrote:
>
>>Can you tell me more about the capabilities the scripting languages for
>>Windows have?  Is the delta caused by the fact that there are so many
>>tools to choose from on the Linux side, or that they are richer in
>>features?
>
> I don't think there is anything in Windows that isn't scriptable.  Did you
> take a look at the web page (easily, by the way, the oddest page I've ever
> seen) I referred to?  It contained scripts to do filesystem, database, and
> directory administration, among other things.  It's script library
> includes tools written in VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python and Rexx.
>
> I know that is fairly easy to do things like create accounts and set their
> properties, manipulate group memberships and security.  File manipulation
> is easily accomplished, as are reading/writing to the registry and Event
> Log.  Office products are also manipulable via scripting tools.
>
> None if it is trivial, of course, but I doubt learning to script
> administration of any system is trivial, at least for the likes of me. I
> think that is part of the problem, too.  Many Windows admins "grew up"
> using GUI admin tools on single systems or small networks.  They simply
> don't have the aptitude to automate many of their administrative tasks via
> script.
>
> I don't know anything about Unix/Linux, so honestly don't know how Windows
> compares.   What kinds of administrative tasks are scriptable in Unix
> thath you think may be unavailable to  Window admins?

Web site?  Oh, right.  I forgot to look.

Very interesting.  I'm a little surprised that there are so many tools
there already and that they can be used so widely.  I know rexx is very
powerful, and of course perl is the great mother.

Maybe Perens was wrong, maybe it is the mindset rather than the capabilities.

Thanks for the info.
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