On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember > earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget > what the problem was) I made a change to a file in /etc, it was resolv.conf > or hosts or nsswitch.conf or something ..and the system ignored the > change. it was only when I made the change through SMIT(AIX's admin > tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB > backend..)
I have to wonder if this is contributing to why IBM is trying to kill off AIX. > AIX is screwed up as it is though, I mean I was shocked to learn to > load SSH on startup I had to put it in /etc/inittab! wtf! (maybe that > was AIX 4.2..I keep gettin the 2 versions confused) Wow, that's amazingly backwards. -- Baloo
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