[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Richard Elling]

> On 11-Jul-07, at 5:37 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> 
> >> On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> >> No, but command-line utilities are important for *developers*.
> >
> > And system egineer/admins too.
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone has used AIX recently, but I feel strongly  
> that we should learn from smit. By which I mean, a GUI being a simple  
> front end for command-line utilities, and giving the user the ability  
> to see the commands that will be run at the press of a button ( F9 ).

Some do (printmgr) and some don't (services-admin). In the 20+ years
I've been involved with SunOS, there has never been a GUI system
admin interface that was comprehensive or survived.  OTOH, this 
could be a red herring... I notice that when using my Mac, the GUI
tools are generally much better than the command line equivalents.
So much so, that I tend to rarely use the command line for sys
admin anymore.  This would be a nice place to be.

NB. the bundled webmin stuff could use some attention.
 -- richard
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