Re: Perl scripts

[Lee <lees@warren-wilson.edu>]

Bill Tihen wrote:

> It occured to me that I have some perl scripts that might be useful to
> other schools.  Thats who I wrote them for anyway.
>
> A messageboard script.
> A mailling list subscriber.
> A messageboard <--> mailling list duplicator.
> An online alumni database.
>

I also have some perl scripts that might be useful to others.  I have Linux
account creation
scripts that take a list of new students from the Registrar and turn it into
new accounts
with various features such as subscribing all the new users to our general
campus listserv.
I also have similar scripts for deleting accounts and changing a student's
password when they forget it (that almost never happens of course) The scripts
are rough, but fairly well
documented.  I usually make one or two changes to them each semester since the
registrar
never seems to send the data file in the same format twice.  They include
routines for random
password generation, automatic expiration dates (which I don't use anymore, as
I've switched
to using NIS+ on an authetication server), and at the end generate a response
form in PCL
format that can be printed and mailed to the students through campus mail.  I
am sure there
are others out there who have similar perl, TCL/tk, shell, or whatever scripts
that they use
on a regular basis.  I would be willing to set up a repository for these sorts
of admin scripts
here at WWC if there are others who would be interested in sharing.  Every
sysadmin shouldn't
have to roll their own (or should they?)

(note the use of sarcasm in ())

-Lee

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