{"id":952,"date":"2010-04-01T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=952"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:50:01","slug":"what-linux-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"What Linux Needs &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is a good clone of SMIT.<\/p>\n<p>SMIT for those who have not been exposed to AIX, is a system administration tool that allows you to perform tasks through a graphical (or text-based) interface. Just like any other tool really, but the killer feature is that once you have built up a task in SMIT such as extend a logical volume by a certain amount, you can then ask it what the command-line equivalent is.<\/p>\n<p>Now all you point and drool fans out there are probably thinking &#8220;So what?&#8221;. Well perhaps this feature is not for you, but it <em>does<\/em> allow those who work at the command line to find out what command is necessary to perform a certain task. Once you know the command to perform a task you can :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use it to setup a cron job to run the task at a particular time. No need to stay up late to perform a task in a &#8220;maintenance window&#8221; after midnight.<\/li>\n<li>Run that command on a whole rack full of servers using a tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theether.org\/pssh\/\">pssh<\/a>. Much easier than repeating the same steps on a dozen computers one by one &#8211; aren&#8217;t these computers supposed to automate tedious jobs for us ?<\/li>\n<li>Use that command to put into a script to run on certain events. For instance you could monitor the available space on all your filesystems and grow the filesystem when the available space drops below a certain trigger point. You might also want to automatically order a new hard disk when the &#8220;volume group&#8221; runs out of space \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Linux is currently undergoing a process of fragmentation where different distributions are operated in different ways much like the old commercial Unix variants went through in the 1990s. A good clone of SMIT would go a long way to allowing different distributions to go their own way in system administration commands, but allow system administrators to use a standard tool to manage any Linux distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is a good clone of SMIT. SMIT for those who have not been exposed to AIX, is a system administration tool that allows you to perform tasks through a graphical (or text-based) interface. 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