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- From: ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: OS of the future....RFD about configuration
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:47:53 GMT
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- Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab
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- Greetings,
-
- I have been using OS/2 since LA and been a very satisfied customer. I
- had two questions that some might want to kick around.
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- System for Applying Patches and System Software Revision
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- I didn't realize how much a pain applying patches was until I downloaded
- and applyed the CSD for TCP/IP, PMX, NFS and the SP. Each CSD installed with
- different commands and the NFS(?) package's install script required changes
- because it copied files directly from drive a:.
-
- Another thing I find lacking is that the syslevel files are all over the
- drives. If I type syslevel and I have mounted CD-ROMS(over a network),
- NFSed disks from Unix boxs. The syslevel command will take 10 minutes to run.
- The results displayed by syslevel only show the previous CSD level not a
- history.
-
- I am also using the RS/6000 AIX while the installp updatep programs may
- have their own problems. It is convienient to use one command to install
- updates. Also the lslpp command is nice because it can give you a list
- of products installed and what revision you are running with a complete
- history. The product history and inventory is located in one area for
- quick retrieval.
-
-
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- System Configuration: config.sys
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- Another thing I realized while Installing products on an OS/2 machine
- (this is not limited to OS/2 DOS/WINDOWS is another such problem) that
- the config.sys is loaded at boot time and tends to get mangled. I installed
- LAN server and It tacked on 15-20 lines then TCPIP 10 more lines to my
- config.sys. With this jumble how would you uninstall something from that
- machine(what line to blow away). Installing programs just tackon stuff to the
- config.sys sometimes with disasterous results.
-
- Is there a better way of handling system configuration then config.sys?
- How does Macintosh doit. The UNIX rc file system while similar to config.sys
- does split the tasks among different files. (rc.net rc.local rc.boot).
-
- Would it be good to have a rc.wp51, rc.win31, etc...
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- These are problems that I see with todays OS offerings. None of these problems
- will be fixed anytime soon but I'm interested in where things are going or
- should be going in the future(with regards to these two areas). As more
- users are networked the config.sys will get longer and more complicated.
- The time required to configure and maintain machines will increase.
- Admin people are busy enough and don't need questions like I installed
- a new package and now my news reader doesn't work.
-
- Looking forward to hearing ideas,
-
- Ed G
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- Systems Manager | all the time..." - JP "Electric Eye"
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab | "Whenever you dream, you're holding a
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