1 Aug
2020
1 Aug
'20
3:36 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:12:57PM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
Me neither. SMIT was HORRIBLE if you understood the files in /etc and
knew what to do with them. It might be nice if you had no understanding
of how to admin a Unix system and here is this "nice" curses based way
to do admin.
To anyone remotely competent, and I don't mean edit sendmail.cf, I mean
you can edit inetd.conf, you can edit a crontab file, etc, SMIT was a
nightmare that made something that should be vi $FILE, done 20 seconds
later, a hellish journey through their menus. It was AWFUL.
Ask me how I know.
--lm
SMIT was quite
nice
i have never seen those four words together like that before.