SUMMARY: admintool under 2.5

From: Bill Townsley (billt@dat.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 1996 - 10:40:23 CDT


Original post:

> What happened to admintool under Solaris 2.5? The one I used
> under 2.4 was a full featured, good lookin' GUI. The one under
> 2.5 looks like a bad Tcl/Tk dream and has significantly fewer
> features. Has anybody worked around this?

admintool as we knew it under 2.4 has been replaced with a stripped
down version in 2.5. This bare bones version can be used for stand
alone system administration (passwd,hosts,group,printers,serial
ports).

Under 2.5, admintool has been replaced with Solstice AdminSuite, which
provides for all the usual stand-alone stuff, plus powerful network
administration functionality (NIS+ control in a GUI!). Most responders
said that AdminSuite had to be purchased separately. Not so! I called
SunExpress to determine the price and they informed me that AdminSuite
is included in the 2.5 Server distribution on its own CDROM. I looked.
It was.

All responders recommended AdminSuite for system adminstration tasks,
except for one who liked the new /usr/bin/admintool better than the
old. One response warned NOT TO USE the bare-bones admintool due to
buggy performance and possible corruption of system files.

Many thanks for all the responses:

michael@morticia.msfc.nasa.gov
kpischke@cadence.com (Karlheinz Pischke)
tim@ben.dciem.dnd.ca
dean@npg.wustl.edu (Dean Humphrey)
rangern@CIRANO.UMontreal.CA (Normand Ranger)
Andre Novaes Cunha <andren@nair.cpqd.br>
catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)
Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.com>
Michael Jarvis <michaelj@burrito.insource.com>
iv08480@issc02.mdc.com (Colin Melville)
Scott McBain <scott@luey.redars.ca.boeing.com>
Daniel J Blander - Sr. Systems Engineer for ACS
Jay Morgan - RSSI/AC06 - Atlanta <jay@atlanta.rssi.com>
rjcronin@uop.com (Robert J. Cronin)
parks@xdiv.LANL.GOV (Parks Fields)
"Matt Hill" <MHILL@graver.com>
cody_christman@mail.amsinc.com
davem@tybrin.com (Dave McFerren)
john <john@a3bgate.nai.net>
nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard)
"Erin Copeland, Systems Admin" <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>
Edgar Der-Danieliantz <edd@aic.net>
Shaun Penton <smp@iad.com>
Richard Aures <richard.aures@erlangen.netsurf.de>
Andi Paton <apaton@wtl1.demon.co.uk>
Tomi Kortelainen <tomi@it.kth.se>
David Staggs <dstaggs@ccca.centcom.mil>
"Kenneth Franco" <ebyl@gdeb.com>



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