[scyld-users] Python upgrade breaks admin tools

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Gardner Pomper wrote:

> I have Scyld version 29, and when I upgraded to python 2.4.2, all the 
> admin scripts stopped working, so now I can't check my network card, 
> etc. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? If I can't fix it, then how 
> about a suggestion on how to avoid the problem after I re-install?

Which admin scripts?

The only current Scyld-created tool that depends on Python is the 
Beostatus GUI.  There are few old programs e.g. /usr/sbin/config2pxe that 
still use Python, but we avoid writing new ones in Perl/Python/Ruby for 
exactly this reason.


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