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	This page is deprecated: please read archives disclaimer. Automating Tasks You'll never have enough time to do the fun sysadmin stuff until you start automating the routine system tasks. Although this requires an initial investment of time and effort to learn shell programming, the payoff is huge. Automating tasks story #1 I recently asked another system administrator to describe a typical day at work. He replied that he started each day by doing a patron load into his library's ILMS and that it took him about an hour. Hmmm, let's do the math: 1 hour a day x 5 days a week x 50 weeks a year = 250 hours, or over 6 weeks of every year. Holy Bourne shell, Batman, time to automate! Find out more... I have so much to say about shell programming (and feel so strongly about its importance) that it could easily be the topic of another VUGM presentation. In fact, it was the topic of a VUGM 2000 Technical Session: Using Scripts to Automate Voyager Tasks.

	Michael Doran - University of Texas at Arlington - UTA Libraries

Automating Tasks