Re: Solaris 10 - Admin Utility ?

Welcome to the world of Solaris. There are a number
of ways to display SMC on another machine running X
but you don't need to. You don't need a GUI to administer
a Solaris machine, in fact there isn't anything you can't
do from the command line that you can do with SMC
and there are many things you can't do with SMC that
you can do easily from the command line. Compared
to SMIT & SAM, SMC is a worthless pig. On the other
hand, Solaris isn't as cryptic as AIX and it's documentation
is much better. Get an account on sunsolv and poke around
sun.doc.com. Administrating a Solaris box is pretty
straight forward if you keep a couple of things in mind:

1.Don't bother with SMC.
2.The free volume manager is completely functional but
not very flexible. Buy Veritas Volume manager if you
need flexibility.
3.Don't let the assholes who reply "RTFM" to everything
bother you. They're frustrated little twerps. If someone is
rude on Usenet or uses "RTFM" visualize Dwight on "The
Office" being behind the remark.

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