J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 
> And a very good thought it is. Would be nice to see such a utility made
> for Linux (maybe there already is). Sun does this somewhat for Solaris
> but IBM takes the prize with a very useful utility called "SMIT" for
> AIX. With "SMIT" or its CLI alternative called "smitty" you can choose
> your operation, and it will generate the command with all of the
> appropriate switches and args. Very cool concept indeed.

Yea, it was.  I've admin'd AIX systems, and I remember SMIT now that you 
mention it.  Very cool utility.

> <grin>
> Hey, David, why don't you write such a program. I think perl would be
> the language of choice. Let me know when you are finish, and I will give
> it a go...
> </grin>

Uh, yea.... :-)  It'll be ready Real Soon Now.... <grin>

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