From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 09:20:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA08362 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 09:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA08357 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 09:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA07741; Sat, 18 May 1996 12:20:10 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Sat, 18 May 1996 12:20 EDT Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA18795; Sat, 18 May 1996 09:38:22 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA08152; Sat, 18 May 1996 09:39:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 09:39:21 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199605181339.JAA08152@lakes> To: lambert.org!terry@dg-rtp.dg.com, valtech@caribnet.net Subject: Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > Will FreeBSD ever have a more userfriendly SMIT utility > > for managing the system espeacially users? > > Eventually. If you want to help code, I have all of the design > discussions that went by on the lists (or you can look them up > at www.freebsd.org). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Well - just to throw in that ever-dissenting opinion - but, I have to manage several machines; one of which is AIX. All of them are easy to handle, except for the AIX machine, because of SMIT... I know several people have mentioned this before - but I have daily experience with SMIT, and just don't like it too much. I'm confident we can come up with something better. So, to address the original question, of "When will have SMIT" (paraphrased) - I hope the answer is "we won't - we'll (someday) have something better"... - Dave Rivers -