[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lummq8$a8v$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> Like I said yesterday, the Unix approach of using text configuration
> files looks very appealing when compared to a half baked interface to
> a binary database.

> If VSI want to sell systems to new non-existing VMS customers, it's
> going to have to produce something a lot better than this current
> mess. You should not have to shut everything down and reboot the
> system just to update the TCP/IP hostname (which is clearly what
> the intended usage model here is.)

Editing text files might be better than a half-baked interface to a 
binary database.  In particular, development of the TCPIP interface 
pretty much stopped a while back, with new features being implemented 
only in configuration files.  However, if done well, an interface is 
much better: online help, syntax checking, triggers to update related 
fields if one is changed, easier to script (if implemented properly), 
SHOW and SET to check just a subset of the parameters etc.