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

[vance at neurotica.com]

On 14 Feb 2003, Koyote wrote:

> > I had never started SMC up until this week when people were talking
> > about it.  WhyTF would you want to use something so dog-ass slow to
> > administer a box.  My god if I was Sun, I would have tossed that a few
> > versions ago.
> >
> > 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.

Peace...  Sridhar