[Info-vax] Configuration files, was: Re: Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lupv0i$2jp$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2014-09-09, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-09 16:53:46 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>
>>> What configuration interface would you use ?
>>
>> There isn't one, at present.
>>
>> The last attempt at unifying system management on OpenVMS was the 
>> SYSMAN command line tool, if you overlook the TNT / OpenVMS Management 
>> Station project.
>>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> One of the nice things about some of the modern Unix/Linux tools is
> that you can sometimes have the best of both worlds.
> 
> The tools I am referring to implement a GUI or TUI but parse from and
> store to a text based configuration file.
> 
> That way you can still edit the configuration file directly if you
> prefer.
> 

That was  my point.  GUI's can be nice, but sometimes you need to tweak
the file itself because your config is not like everyone else's.  I have
used the "sysinstall" utility on FreeBSD but often it is faster, easier
and/or more convenient to just edit /etc/rc.conf by hand using vi.

bill

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