Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 01:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@FreeBSD.ORG (Dima Ruban) To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: lithium@cia-g.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605250814.BAA16824@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199605250635.XAA07032@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at May 24, 96 11:35:09 pm
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Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com writes: > > > >I would be doing it for the sole purpose of adding a lot of site specific > >things as I did under Linux (finally digged up a skeleton to the adduser > >program and modifying it). I asked about it being in C because I know C > >and not Perl. :(. I would rather just add my things to the current > >adduser program. > > I'm not trying to tell you that you're wrong -- it's your system, and > you're certainly welcome to do with it anything you desire. > > However, I think you'd be doing yourself a real favor by learning perl > (and awk, sed, sh, grep, cut, etc.). It's The Right Thing To Do. > It's The Unix Way: use small simple tools that are very good at a First: this is not small tool. Second: this is slow tool. Third: this is not standard unix tool. > specific task, and combine them to make something better. > > Perl is one of those tools. I can't agree. > Plus, if you were a real sysadmin (not saying you aren't -- I'm just > saying one who makes a living at it), you'd want to write ALL your > simple site-specific stuff as scripts, if at all possible. This has > two advantages: 1) very quick and easy to modify on the fly [no edit; > compile; test; edit; compile; test...], and 2) very easy for someone > else to maintain if you move on to something else. > > With that in mind, you're doing yourself a disservice by locking > yourself into a single paradigm for solving your problems. Look at > this as a great opportunity to learn a new tool. :-) > > And, if you think everything I just said is a load of bull, or you're > simply not interested in learning The Unix Way, hack up something in C > and be happy. > > By the way, I just finished an excellent book by Peter H. Salus > (published by Adison-Wesley), called "A Quarter Century of UNIX". > Very interesting history of the evolution of Unix. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > > Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. > If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- dima
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