[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Eric Webb 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.

Hey, I *use* smit.  But there are the people who even notify ODM manually.
And yes, there are people who actually memorize all that crap.

Peace...  Sridhar