DU 4.x system administrators,
In the V5.0 release of DIGITAL UNIX, which we are working on now, we
are evaluating the need for the *setup scripts, namely netsetup,
bindsetup, nfssetup, ntpsetup, and mailsetup. As you may know, in
V4.0, these scripts were announced for retirement, and the *config
applications (netconfig, bindconfig, nfsconfig, ntpconfig, and
mailconfig) were introduced. These applications will be further
enhanced in the V5.0 release to provide multi-UI domain support
(curses, X, Web).
However, we know many users are very fond of the *setup scripts, and
we would like to get your feedback on them. If you could reply to me
with answers to the following, it would be greatly appreciated!
1) do you exclusively use the setup scripts to configure your 4.0
systems?
2) if so, have you tried using the 4.0 *config applications, and
preferred the old *setup scripts?
3) if so, why? What feature of the *setup scripts causes you to prefer
them?
4) would it be painful if the setup scripts were no longer available
in V5.0, even if a non-interactive command line and curses equivalent
were available? (non-interactive command line: ex. "sysman -cli network
add tu0 address 16.100.12.340 netmask 255.255.255.0 name bigalpha"
<ret> )
Thanks!
Paul Henderson
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Paul Henderson | email: henderson_at_unx.dec.com
DIGITAL Unix Engineering | snailmail: 200 Route 9, Manalapan, NJ 07726
Digital Equipment Corp. | voice: (732)577-6044 (DTN 462-6044)
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Received on Fri Jun 12 1998 - 19:42:46 NZST