On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Andrew Hecox wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > 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. > > But are they best off learning a framework executing commands or writing > simple scripts, shell functions, and alaises to execute commands? > Clearly at some point a framework is helpful and at some point it's > overkill.
Anyone who knows smitty knows that you can always ask to see what is underneath. So even for someone who is not experienced, he can still learn from it. And yes, I believe that not everybody is interested in becoming an experienced sysadmin and not every experienced sysadmin wants to learn the different options and arguments for creating a user on a myriad of platforms. Hell, I still need the manpages *everytime* (because I do not want to risk using the wrong option) and I do not create users myself that often. So as an experienced sysadmin I would be in favor of such a tool because it saves me time and I have no interest in remembering all the silly differences in options. Besides I am not forcing it on you, so why would you care ? :) -- -- 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
