That's hard

From Genunix

Please describe system administration tasks that are harder than they should be.

Suggestions for a better way would help!

1. Package managment sucks! apt-get should be integrated as fast as possible also with stable & security branch philosophy and cron-apt like applications... - and pkg-get is not a sufficient clone of apt-get for this purpose - See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=39185&tstart=0

2. Solaris Cluster should be easier... (it's getting better, ex. object command syntax)

3. docs.sun.com instability and slowness (made more difficult by constantly re-naming/re-branding products).

4. Polishing currently available pkgs like bash... (setting PS1,PS2, including /usr/sfw/bin in PATH and so on)

5. Installation of memtest on x86 to choose from GRUB.

6. Superuser files should go to /root instead of / - Are you using root too much? ;-) - Nope, but it's about keeping clean filesystem in / (proactive security, what applications are run by root and so on)

7. Add ability for adding comments on devices in SVM

8. Idea from AIX: command for making DR backups like mksysb (example, generating ISO DVD/CD image). - Can't you do this sufficiently with a flar? - The whole point is that this should be _EASIER_: put CD-R into CDRW, one command, the end (strictly saying: automation; IBM did this, why Sun can't ? ).

9. We need to be able to find hardware (particularly disks) from logical names. Finding the dead disk in a JBOD that's multi-pathed (and even if it's not) is just way more difficult than it should be (anyone got a better trick than the Sun recommended light on/off on the disks either side?).

10. Setting up LDAP and customizing for the local environment (especially if you're stuck with an OpenLDAP install designed for Linux systems).

11. Integrated configuration management. Maybe something like Puppet but with more Solaris hooks?