Towards a POSIX Standard for Software Administration
Barrie Archer
ICL
Abstract
The POSIX draft standard for Software Administration is about to go to
ballot for acceptance as a formal POSIX standard. Since this standard
is likely to form the basis of future Software Administration products
it will have a profound effect on the facilities available to
administrators and the way they manage software. This paper explains
how the standard came about, gives a summary of the features and
explains how systems administrations can, via the balloting process,
have an influence on the final standard.
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