With this pragmatic book, administrators can view the various tasks that often occur in the management of this system, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient and less painful to deal with them. Each chapter in Python for Unix and Linux System Administration presents a particular administrative issue, such as concurrency or data backup, and presents Python solutions through hands-on examples. Discover how this language can help you: Read text files and extract information Run tasks simultaneously using the threading and forking options Get information from one process to use the network facilities Create clickable GUIs to handle large and complex utilities Monitor large clusters interact with the programming engine with SNMP Master IPython Interactive Python shell to replace or add to Bash, Korn, or Z-Shell Integrate Cloud Computing into your infrastructure, and learn to write a Google App Engine Application Solve unique data backup challenges with customized scripts Interacting with MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, Postgres, Django ORM, and SQLAlchemy With this book you will learn how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and write the same code run well on multiple Unix platforms.