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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:31:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002150429250.63348-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <x7hffauai7.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>

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On 15 Feb 2000, Juergen Nickelsen wrote:

:Having one file per configuration item isn't that bad once you get
:used to it. (Setting the default gateway with "echo routername >
:/etc/defaultrouter" isn't easily beaten in terms of speed! :-) Set
:EDITOR=vi and vipw won't get back to you with nasty surprises.

Having started life on SunOS 4, I don't have any real problems with
Solaris' configuration style.  It hasn't changed since Sun was a bsd 4.2
system with 4.3 enhancements.  As for adding a user in Solaris, I've
always been partial to vi /etc/passwd ; pwconv.

Jamie Bowden

-- 

"Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, 
Microsoft is different from any other software company..."
Kenneth G. Cavness



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