[ale] Unix Automation?

[Chris Fowler]

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 09:02 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 4/18/2011 8:51 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > As I said before.  When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we
> > learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same
> > amount of time.  If you had to download a base X config and then
> > configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....
> > Everyone else get off my lawn!
>  
> 
> Before I learned Linux I did UNIX admin. When I started UNIX admin, I
> did it all using:
> vi & config files
> UNIX shell scripts & command-line tools
> 
> I configured LP, UUCP, DNS, users, shared folders, backups, and more.
> There was no X, there were no menus.
> 
> 

Good.  I'll get the fold out lawn chairs and we can drink beer and tell
the kids to get off the lawn.

AIX did hide a lot in smitty and it caused me all types of hurt when
things would go south and I had to figure out how to figure those
problems out.  Abstractions are there to make things easier on the user
or admin but they make it harder to solve problems during a crisis and
then the abstraction breaks.