This is the first semi-serious code I've open sourced. I'm mostly a sysadmin, and not a particularly good programmer, so if you see anything done badly, please

This is the first semi-serious code I've open sourced. I'm mostly a sysadmin, and not a particularly good programmer, so if you see anything done badly, please let me know. I know that I did a bad job with error handling, I couldn't quite grok how to do it properly. edit: changed word.