On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, todd w. wrote: > Dag Weers stated: > > >What is missing to me is something more similar to smit or smitty on > AIX. > >A modular interface to drive scripts with a well-structured menu. > > >Such an Open-Source project with the right spirit will no doubt attract > >lost of people to write modules and new features. > > Ack, no.... (please). Smit is clunky at best. Maybe I'm biased - but I > expect my admins to know commands and to execute them.
Right, let's use highly expensive sysadmins for stupid operational procedures and support. > I also believe smit is owned by IBM. I haven't heard that it would be open > sourced. ;) I don't want smitty per se, I don't like every aspect of smitty. But a framework where modules and scripts can be structured and improved in a community fashion looks very interesting to me. PS Especially if you have a heterogenous network with lots of different Unix and Linux distributions I would see the benefit of having one interface for sysadmin tasks that looks the same (even though the underlaying commands are different) -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
