[p4] Advice needed on Unix/Linux server configuration for af airlylarge P4 depot

[Mark Allender]

> Primary:  Ease of creating trigger scripts to perform simple 
> operations.
> Right now we're using ActiveState Perl and batch to implement the few
> we've got in place, but they're pretty ugly.  Windows also its own
> security/permission issues to work through with in terms of
> communicating with remote machines and accessing remote 
> services (meant
> for your protection, but still a problem) It is also more difficult
> (although by no means impossible) to configure and manage a dozen
> different OS users and clients so that each trigger script is 
> running in
> a sandbox.   I found the first couple of triggers I wrote taking a lot
> longer because of these issues.

Can you give us (me :-) ), more information about the problems you've
encountered above?  I have had _no_ trouble with triggers in Perl under
Windows, but I always consider myself naïve and figure I should always learn
more.  So I'm curious as to come of the details of the problems that you've
seen.