[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

Eric Webb ttlchaos at randomc.com
Fri Oct 25 23:59:15 CDT 2002


On Saturday 26 October 2002 12:39 am, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> >
> > My problem with AIX is from about five years ago where I adminned a few
> > for a project at school.  Back then, it really seemed like I couldn't
> > make any configuration changes without using smit(ty), which really got
> > on my nerves.  I'm willing to take another swing, though.  Wonder how
> > recent the OS install is.  Need to get that console up!
>
> You don't have to use smit.  Smit is just a front end to all the
> configuration commandline utils.

I'm surprised to hear you say this...  doing things manually is certainly 
doable, but changing things without informing the ODM is typically a bad 
thing with AIX.  Never piss off the ODM gods.

-E.



More information about the rescue mailing list