[rescue] SMC truly blows... even on Ultra 1/170

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Phil Schilling wrote:

> > > > If you can't do it from a terminal session WTF are you doing it at
> > > > all for?
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, while I'm all about my CLI for *me*, I don't really buy into
> > > the philosophy that only a command line tool is permitted to a *real
> > > admin*.
> >
> > Just because you can do it from a terminal session doesn't make it a
> > command-line tool.  Look at SMITTY under AIX.  I do that from terminal
> > sessions all the time.  It's a menu-driven doohickey.
>
> Also don't consider smitty a GUI tool. 8-)  More a nested collection of
> command line scripts that save a lot of typing. ( I like smitty, by the
> way)  I have to believe that many of us that admin boxes daily, create
> scripts for common tasks.  I know I do, but that does not make them
> GUIs.

It's a text-only interface to a program that normally uses a GUI.  That
doesn't mean it should be called command-line though.  Know what I mean?

Peace...  Sridhar