More and more, Solaris 10 strikes me as being much like Ubuntu 6.06: asystem with plenty of big ideas but only half finished implementations.Today's half implemented idea is fmd , the new fault manager daemon .

One of the things I expect out of a fault monitoring system is that itshould not report things as faulted when they are now fine, especiallynot with scary messages that get dumped on the console at every boot(it's acceptable to report them as faulted and now

Before you rise in righteous indignation, let me say that that doesn'tmean that you can't write programs in the Bourne shell; you can writeprograms in anything that's Turing-complete if you try hard enough.It's just that you shouldn't.

The problem with writing programs in the Bourne shell is the same aswriting programs in any other highly constrained language: your programs come out all but unreadablebecause they are spending most of their time getting around the inherentlimitations of their

There is a constant tension in system administration between doingthings by hand in the standard way, versus creating your own customsystems to automate the work. Doing things by hand takes longer and ismore tedious, so it sounds like automation should be a slamdunk, butthe problem with automation is that you've created a new local piece ofsoftware that has to be updated, maintained, learned by other people(especially new people), and understood.

(Or to put it another way, you have taken something