On the way home from LISA '14 I found myself already thinking about what
I'm going to submit to next year's conference and about what I'm going
to contribute to the community between now and then. I have some ideas
about what I want to do but my inner sysadmin is screaming at me to
first make sure I understand the problem before I design a solution.
With that in mind, I'm asking everyone who reads this to take a moment
and answer a few questions for me.
I believe that many *nix sysadmins write programs (or "scripts," if you
prefer -- for this discussion the distinction doesn't matter). Maybe
it's this simple:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home
du -ks * | sort -n | head -10
and you wrap that in a cron job, or maybe it's a 200 line Perl program
that does something more complicated. If you're not writing programs
that's OK but I want to hear from the people who are writing them.
Would you please take a few moments to send me a description of the
programs you've written in the last 3 or 6 or 12 months? Specifically,
would you please send me the following:
* language used
* number of lines
* very brief description (< 140 chars? :-) of what
the program does
* who runs the program:
1) you, from the command line
2) people in your group, from the command line
3) people outside your group, from the command line
4) "the system" via anything from cron to whatever
config management system you use
5) it's a web app
6) other
Here's an example:
perl, 1363 lines
simple unit test harness for CLI tools
run by: 1 (me, from the command line)
Please reply directly to me. I will NOT distribute or publish this data
in any way -- I just want to know what kind of programs people here
write. Your answers won't even appear in a "highly anonymized form" in
anything I write; this is 100% "background" information that I'll use to
help me decide what to do.
Thanks,
Adam
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