[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix (AIX)

[Kevin]

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That sounds vastly better than what i was imagining.  I, like
most, like the concept of being able to boot up via whatever
means necessary and changing text files with vi or whatever. 
Anything that says"binary" and "configuration" in the same
sentence makes me nervous, but as you described it, it sounds
like it could be helpful.

Thanks,
/KRM

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:21:42 -0600
"Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > AIX Binary config database?  Is that something like the
> > Win32 registry (only much more stable hopefully)?
> 
> Think of it as more like an audit log with a snapshot of the
> system's current configuration.  The system doesn't actually
> pull the configuration from there--it uses text files like
> everywhere else. However, you can regenerate those text
> files from the data in the object database, and you can use
> it to clone systems (theoretically).
> 
> > Will it functionacceptably without this database or is it
> > mandatory?
> 
> It's not mandatory, but definitely recommended.
> 
> > I know Solaris has a "registry",
> 
> Only to the extent of keeping the package manager in line. 
> They just renamed the package database to the Solaris
> registry.
> 
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