> > 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 > ould 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.
How so? A GUI that can do things the command line can't? That would be terrible; how could one script the same thing to be done repetitively (or by cfengine or puppet or whatever)? Aside from ease of use, the GUI shouldn't add anything, IMO; certainly not functionality that couldn't be scripted. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
