From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 16:53:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA20678 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 16:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA20672; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 16:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from downlink.eng.umd.edu (downlink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.182]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01956; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:53:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by downlink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA14090; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:53:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@downlink.eng.umd.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: Sean Kelly , terry@lambert.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, ron@infi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted In-Reply-To: <199607052215.PAA15685@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry> Tcl/tk are OK for the fornt end tool, but not the backend > > Terry> implementation. > > > > But it'd be perfect for providing an *interface* to the backend > > implementation. That's one of Tcl's strongest features: it's easily > > embeddable---and you get a set of nice scripting primitives as a > > bonus. > > Keep the scripting away from the tools proper, please. I don't > want to *have* to run Tcl to administer my system, but I can > understand that other people may want to run it to administer theirs. This isn't clear to me, Terry ... Keep any software capable of accepting a script away from a prime scripting application .... hmmm, would you have said the same to a perl script, or a shell script? This sounds somewhat inconsistent, I'd like you to amplify on it, if you would. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------