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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:30520 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4232 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!! Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <39lofv$q5f@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <CywwzF.L6@news.cern.ch> <1994Nov08.143108.154711@ua1ix.ua.edu> <39tc5g$bvp@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> Message-ID: <9411222329.05@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 04:29:07 GMT Lines: 28 Ollivier Robert (roberto@hsc.fr.net) wrote: : In article <1994Nov08.143108.154711@ua1ix.ua.edu>, : Thomas K. Otake <totake@furball.eng.ua.edu> wrote: : > features in AIX that I wish were available in Linux. One is the ability : > to increase the size of a file system without having to recreate it, and : Yeah, it is good but the FS is just too slow to work with... : > the other is SMIT, an admin interface that let's you do pretty much : > anything you need to do to administer a system and makes life a lot : > easier since you don't have to type in 5 line commands and don't have to : > wade through fifty manuals to find the one command line argument needed : > to get something to work. Is there something similar available for : SMIT is one of the reasons I hate AIX. In fact I don't like many of the so : called user-friendly interfaces (sysadmsh, sysadm, sam, smit). They hide : too much how the system works (though in case of AIX, I do not want really : to know how it works :-)) without being that powerful. Ever tried to add : 200 accounts on a HP-UX system with SAM ? 1. Run NIS on the HP box. 2. Or just keep new accounts in a text file in passwd format, append it to /etc/passwd, and then do pwconv. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com rmk@tencats.tiac.net