> On 11-Jul-07, at 5:37 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > >> On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > >> No, but command-line utilities are important for *developers*. > > > > And system egineer/admins too. > > I'm not sure if anyone has used AIX recently, but I feel strongly > that we should learn from smit. By which I mean, a GUI being a simple > front end for command-line utilities, and giving the user the ability > to see the commands that will be run at the press of a button ( F9 ).
Some do (printmgr) and some don't (services-admin). In the 20+ years I've been involved with SunOS, there has never been a GUI system admin interface that was comprehensive or survived. OTOH, this could be a red herring... I notice that when using my Mac, the GUI tools are generally much better than the command line equivalents. So much so, that I tend to rarely use the command line for sys admin anymore. This would be a nice place to be. NB. the bundled webmin stuff could use some attention. -- richard -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
