On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The great thing about SMIT is that it reports the line-mode commands >> which it uses. > I totally agree with this. The "GUI" in a sense taught you line commands.
Yes, and let you work out how to plug 'em into a real script, too, though soime of the functions generated were a little hard to integrate and took some ingenuity to re-use. Never forget the $HOME/smit.script and $HOME/smit.out that allowed you to see what was done w/o requiring F8 to see a preview of the command being executed. > And the second best thing about SMIT (not smitty) was that the little > running dude would fall on his face when there was an error. I had to > laugh every time I saw that :)) I thought that was Forrest Gump... after all, smit happens. There was a time when I thought SMIT was poorly named-- "System Management Interface Tool" instead of "System Management UTility". The hardest problem, really, was navigation. Also, an annoying thing I discovered when configuring the network dispatcher units, you really can't use SMIT for that set-up since you had to adjust addresses "in the right order". I like YAST2 since it works in both an SSH session or an X server "seamlessly". Since I ran AIX boxen head-less, smitty was the order of the day, there. RedHat-- even with my (now expired) RHCE, wasn't "seamless" in managing RHEL3. I hope RHEL5 is a big step up, but, on Fedora 8, I still have not found a central command to get into the system administration tools. (shrugs) For any Unix and deviant systems thereof, users seldom can detect differences between them-- as users. (Though when I was working with the internals of Thoroughbred Business BASIC, some systems didn't handle locking()/lockf() "properly" and were, at the time, referred to as "Joe Isuzu Unix" systems. (Here's a bit of trivia: Thoroughbred BASIC will interpret the LSIT command as a synonym for "LIST".) - soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
