On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > On 11-01-27 07:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> smit is a GUI (including smitty that did a 'GUI' on a text-only console, >> including telatype if needed) for doing various administrative tasks, >> adding users, configuring networks, adminstering storage. >> >> one of the wonderful features of smit is the 'show me' button. This didn't >> go into how smit worked, but it showed you what the cli command would be >> to execute what you have selected in the GUI, complete with all the >> appropriate options. you could literally cut-n-past this to the command >> line and it would achieve the same results as hitting the 'apply' button >> on the GUI. > > I just want to point out that smit creates two files, smit.script and > smit.log. The commands used is written (appended) to smit.script, the output > from the command to smit.log. This behaviour goes way back, at least to AIX > 3.2.1.
I had forgotten about that. AIX administration, through smit, is a wonderful example of the right way to do an administrative GUI. you can edit the underlying config files and the GUI will see the changes you can get the GUI to tell you what commands you would need to run from a script to do what you are doing with the GUI it records the commands that are run, and the output of the command for later viewing. these are all wonderful features that are missing in most GUIs David Lang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
