From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 11:50:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA13831 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA13804 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id TAA16916; Sat, 18 May 1996 19:48:51 +0100 (BST) To: Thomas David Rivers cc: lambert.org!terry@dg-rtp.dg.com, valtech@caribnet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 May 1996 09:39:21 EDT." <199605181339.JAA08152@lakes> Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:48:51 +0100 Message-ID: <16914.832445331@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas David Rivers wrote in message ID <199605181339.JAA08152@lakes>: > 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... A survey in the UK disagrees. It highlights the fact that a central management interface for the maintence and configuration of AIX makes AIX more cost effective to run than Windows NT server, and several other ``popular'' operating systems. I believe I posted the article on -chat, if you want to look in the archive. > 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"... The answer is ``we will have a system management tool, hopefully this year'' ... since I have never seen SMIT, I can't comment if it will be ``better'' or not. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info