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Old 05-11-2008, 09:36 PM
Rich Teer
 
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Default Re: Apple should acquire Sun

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> > In Solaris 9 there was a hint of trouble to come. More have and
> > "directoryserver" to start LDAP. Now no self respecting UNIX guru would
> > create a command that long. A sign of newbees at the OS development table.
> >

>
> I suppose you would have preferred something like
> lqp \/!x;z?/
> Definitely more "Unix like". The trouble is, people have to read it and type
> it; hopefully without error!


"ldapd" would be the canonical UNIX-like choice for this example, I think.
Nothing hard about that...

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