From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 12:24:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15450 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prop (prop.caribnet.net [205.214.195.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15401; Sat, 18 May 1996 12:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:17 -0400 (AST) From: ValTech To: Gary Palmer cc: Thomas David Rivers , lambert.org!terry@dg-rtp.dg.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) In-Reply-To: <16914.832445331@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk So Mr Palmer, When is the SMIT utility going to be available? On Sat, 18 May 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > 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 > >