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From: cudcv@bacon.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:06:29 -0000
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In article <JIM.96Jan12142722@dewar.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim
Reid) writes:
> The major concern I have is all the gratuitous SvsVR4 cruft that gets in the
> way of administering the system: the brain-dead and truly horrid print
> spooler, SAF ('nuf said), all the rc.? crap, the "-plumb" argument to
> ifconfig (WHY??), inittab and run levels, etc, etc.
I can't let that go by. sacadm, pmadm et al are all truly horrific, and
should be thrown away in favour of nice, easy to manage configuration files.
I think my favourite is
pmadm -a -p tcp -s lpd -i root -m `nlsadmin -o /var/spool/lp/fifos/listenBSD
-A '\0x00020203000000000000000000000000'` -v `nlsadmin -V`
You what ?
The rc.? "crap" is a vast improvement over one monolithic rc.local file,
though. Want to add a new service ? Add a new file. Want to start/stop a
service ? sh /etc/init.d/service start|stop. And fancy actually being able
to shut down services cleanly, rather than hoping you can finish between the
SIGTERM and the SIGKILL. I don't know how I survived without.
Cheers,
Rob
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