On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:05:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > > some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember > > earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget > > what the problem was) I made a change to a file in /etc, it was resolv.conf > > or hosts or nsswitch.conf or something ..and the system ignored the > > change. it was only when I made the change through SMIT(AIX's admin > > tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB > > backend..) > > I have to wonder if this is contributing to why IBM is trying to kill > off AIX. If they are, then they are taking their time. <shudder>I remember being an admin on an AIX 2.2.1 box - pre-smit and pre-registry</shudder>. Even back in those days it was ... ahem ... Unlike any other Unix. </shudder> (I know: AIX != Unix, but I found out the hard way...) -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown. -- Thomas Mann
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