Python for UNIX and Linux System Administration

This is the Chinese translation of the O'Reilly classic Python for UNIX and Linux System Administration, published by China Machine Press in 2009 as part of the "O'Reilly Best Books Series." Aimed at operations and development staff with some system administration experience who want to use Python to replace or supplement shell scripts, the book organizes its chapters around tasks that recur in real administration: each chapter first poses a concrete management problem—such as concurrency control, log parsing, data backup, network probing, or process monitoring—then gives runnable Python examples and approaches. The coverage is broad: the first two chapters review Python basics and code reuse, with emphasis on the IPython interactive environment; subsequent chapters discuss text processing and log parsing, document and report generation, network clients and remote calls (socket, XML-RPC, SSH, Twisted, Scapy), file and data operations and archiving/compression, SNMP cluster monitoring, cross-platform system administration, package management and application packaging and deployment, processes and concurrency (subprocess, threads, supervisor, screen), GUI and web interface construction, data persistence and database interaction, and command-line tool design, ending with an integrated example that ties the techniques together. The authors also provide an Ubuntu virtual machine containing the book's source code and running examples so readers can verify things hands-on. Because of its publication era, the Python 2 syntax, older IPython versions, and tools such as easy_install and Zenoss have largely been superseded; when reading, it is better to grasp the approach and structure of "organizing automated operations with Python" than to copy the code verbatim.