Once I get into a programming mode, I have to remember to surface twice an hour to check e-mail and other things. Time really flies when I'm solving problems. Happily, these succomed in only a few days.
I've managed to get my perl script to upload data into the MS-SQL database I want it to. And I've spent the last few hours hammering Access to give it the reports I need. This is subtly different from the perl/Oracle/Crystal combination I had at my last job, and I'm having to learn a few new dialects. But it is bearing fruit.
I now have a report that'll dump out all users who are at or above 90% disk-quota utilization. Not handy for me, but I know a few groups of people that'd be very useful. One of the interesting side-effects of looking at directories and not users is that "orphaned" directories where the user has been deleted but the user-dir hasn't show up in the list. In fact, number 11 on this list is an ex-employee who was high enough in the scheme of things that deleting their crap may cause unfortunate side-effects.
I've managed to get my perl script to upload data into the MS-SQL database I want it to. And I've spent the last few hours hammering Access to give it the reports I need. This is subtly different from the perl/Oracle/Crystal combination I had at my last job, and I'm having to learn a few new dialects. But it is bearing fruit.
I now have a report that'll dump out all users who are at or above 90% disk-quota utilization. Not handy for me, but I know a few groups of people that'd be very useful. One of the interesting side-effects of looking at directories and not users is that "orphaned" directories where the user has been deleted but the user-dir hasn't show up in the list. In fact, number 11 on this list is an ex-employee who was high enough in the scheme of things that deleting their crap may cause unfortunate side-effects.