NAME

Slaughter::API::linux - Perl Automation Tool Helper Linux implementation

SYNOPSIS

This module is the one that gets loaded upon Linux systems, after the generic API implementation. It implements the platform-specific parts of our primitives.

We also attempt to load Slaughter::API::Local::linux, where site-specific primitives may be implemented. If the loading of this additional module fails we report no error/warning.

METHODS

Now follows documentation on the available methods.

import

Export all subs in this package into the main namespace.

InstallPackage

The InstallPackage primitive will allow you to install a system package.

Currently apt-get and yum are supported, via Slaughter::Packages::linux.

  foreach my $package ( qw! bash tcsh ! )
  {
      if ( PackageInstalled( Package => $package ) )
      {
          print "$package installed\n";
      }
      else
      {
          InstallPackage( Package => $package );
      }
  }

The following parameters are available:

Package [mandatory]

The name of the package to install.

PackageInstalled

Test whether a given system package is installed.

  if ( PackageInstalled( Package => "exim4-config" ) )
  {
      print "$package installed\n";
  }

The following parameters are supported:

Package

The name of the package to test.

The return value will be a 0 if not installed, or 1 if it is.

Currently apt-get and yum are supported, via Slaughter::Packages::linux.

RemovePackage

Remove the specified system package from the system.

  if ( PackageInstalled( Package => 'telnetd' ) )
  {
      RemovePackage( Package => 'telnetd' );
  }

The following parameters are supported:

Package

The name of the package to remove.

Currently apt-get and yum are supported, via Slaughter::Packages::linux.

UserCreate

Create a new user for the system.

  # TODO

The following parameters are required:

Login

The username to create.

UID

The UID for the user.

GID

The primary GID for the user.

You may optionally specify the GCos field to use.

AUTHOR

Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2010-2015 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license.

cpanm App::Slaughter

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::Slaughter