Who's in charge here: Oracle or Unix?
uunet!bria!mike
uunet!bria!mike
Thu Feb 14 15:40:46 AEST 1991
In an article, jjmhome.UUCP!rmwise (Robert M. Wise) writes:
>Well, I do too! People who want to hear about the disaster that the
>DB approach can be should read comp.unix.aix. IBM decided to create
>this monster from heck called SMIT that uses the database approach.
>It's rather appalling. I won't summarize here. Go read the group and
>weep (or laugh).
'Tis a rarity for me to leap to IBM's defense, but in this case, you're
not quite correct. What you are refering to is _not_ SMIT, but rather
ODM. SMIT (System Management Interface Tool) is quite the slick little
program that does _absolutely nothing to the system_ itself. It simply
invokes tools like mkdev, rmuser, etc. It is quite the boon to those
who don't want to read through 3 thick command references, or spend
half the day having fun with InfoExplorer. :-)
And insofar as /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. they are not part of the ODM;
they are traditional flat files.
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Michael Stefanik | Opinions stated are not even my own.
Systems Engineer, Briareus Corporation | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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