From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 10:17:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01251 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:17:56 -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 KAA01243 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id KAA21283; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:27:40 +0100 (BST) To: ValTech cc: Thomas David Rivers , terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:17 EDT." Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:27:40 +0100 Message-ID: <21281.832584460@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ValTech wrote in message ID : > So Mr Palmer, > When is the SMIT utility going to be available? The FSMT (FreeBSD System Management Tool) (and no, that's not it's name, I just made that up as it sounds about right :-) ) will be available when it's finished, and not before! To my mind at least, there are still some fundamental interface requirements to be worked out, as I'm not convinced that the path Jordan is advocating currently is the right one. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info