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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302284979 by tlarkin on Friday 6th of February 2009 04:47:11 PM

02-06-2009

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Originally Posted by Neo

Just a nit, sorry.....

I don't do "everything" from the command line on my OS X machine.

Yes, the GUI permits many things, perhaps even most things for the average user, but it does not faciliate "everything" as mentioned above.

Well, just a few thoughts about the command line and the GUI, they all kind of tie into everything. These binaries are scriptable and can be ran from the from either the comamnd line or GUI

networksetup
scutil
dscl
diskutil
open
osascript
airportd
ARD kickstart
dsenableroot
find

I mean these commands almost all have GUI front ends of some sort, and they all tie into each other very nicely. I find the general documentation and support better than most distros of Linux and Unix. Since I am an OS X sys admin by trade I love writing small scripts to configure my 6,000+ clients and it makes it easy that almost anything you can configure in the OS GUI wise also has a command line counter part which can help you get your job done.

Now on the other hand you average user will never have to open up the terminal they can do almost everything I am talking about by the GUI, which is nice to have it both ways.

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dtadvfs

dtadvfs(8)						      System Manager's Manual							dtadvfs(8)

NAME

       dtadvfs - Starts the AdvFS graphical user interface

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/X11/dtadvfs [options] [-N] [-C hostname]

OPTIONS

       Turns off information messages about starting up the

       asemgr  utility.   This	message  is displayed at startup and whenever  the file system configuration is changed when the system is running
       TruCluster  Software.  Connects to other hosts that are running the AdvFS GUI daemon, advfsd.

OPERANDS

       Uses the standard X Windows options. See the X(1X) and xterm(1X) reference pages for information.

DESCRIPTION

       The AdvFS graphical user interface (GUI) organizes  AdvFS functionality into system management tasks and makes them  available	through  a
       graphical interface.

       Issue  the  dtadvfs  command to display the AdvFS GUI  Main window. This window serves as both the starting point for all AdvFS GUI-managed
       tasks and as a monitor for file-system status. When the Main window is displayed,  disk-space usage information is shown for the  host  and
       file domains.

       From  the  Main window, you can choose tasks from the following menus: Choose GUI setup options or exit the GUI.  Choose file domain, file-
       set, clone, or volume configuration  tasks.  Choose what information displays on the main window or view  devices and volumes  information.
       Choose file domain balance or defragment procedures.

       Online  help  is available for all tasks and windows available through  the GUI.  To access help, click on the Help button in any window or
       choose  Help from the menu bar to display information.

RESTRICTIONS

       You must be the root user to use this utility and you must register the Advanced File System Utilities license.

FILES

       /Storage_Management/Dtadvfs

	      The indicator for graphic icons.	The dtadvfs message log file. Remove or  copy this log to another location periodically to prevent
	      the  log from becoming  too large.  The AdvFS Manager user-interface executable file.  The dtadvfs online help files.  The dtadvfs X
	      resource file.  The dtadvfs message catalogs.  The GUI graphic icon files.  The launch script for the graphic icons.

SEE ALSO

       advfs(4), advfsd(8), X(1X), xterm(1X)

																	dtadvfs(8)