Customizing a linux distribuition using Python

[Antoine Logean]

Hi,

After having installed Linux (RedHat) on a PC I want to automate all the
post-installation tasks. A lot of shell and perl scripts exist to do
this. But I want to have something purelly object oriented where I can
define the differents tasks in an abstract manner. Is that something in
this direction in Python ? So any information concerning Linux (Unix)
system administration and Python would interest me.

Thanks for your help

Antoine

 

[Cliff Wells]

Hi,

After having installed Linux (RedHat) on a PC I want to automate all the
post-installation tasks. A lot of shell and perl scripts exist to do
this. But I want to have something purelly object oriented where I can
define the differents tasks in an abstract manner. Is that something in
this direction in Python ? So any information concerning Linux (Unix)
system administration and Python would interest me.

Since you're on RedHat, take a look at some of their administration
scripts (many of which are in Python) for some inspiration. Just doing
a 'find /usr/share -name "*.py"' should be enough to get you started.
Note that not all of their Python scripts have a .py suffix.

Regards,