System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems is part of a set that includes a significant part of the Oracle Solaris system administration information. This guide contains information for both SPARC based and x86 based systems.
This book assumes you have completed the following tasks:
Installed the SunOS 5.10 Operating System
Set up all the networking software that you plan to use
For the Oracle Solaris 10 releases, new features of interest to system administrators are covered in sections called What's New in ... ? in the appropriate chapters.
This Oracle Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.
In this document these x86 terms mean the following:
“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” relates specifically to 64-bit compatible CPUs.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.
For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.
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This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris Oracle Solaris 10 release. To use this book, you should have 1–2 years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful.
Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the System Administration Guides.
Book Title |
Topics |
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User accounts and groups, server and client support, shutting down and booting a system, and managing services |
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Terminals and modems, system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), system processes, and troubleshooting Oracle Solaris software problems |
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Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data |
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TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, Solaris IP filter, Mobile IP, IP network multipathing (IPMP), and IPQoS |
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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP and transitioning from NIS+ to LDAP |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+) |
NIS+ naming and directory services |
Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP |
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Printing topics and tasks, using services, tools, protocols, and technologies to set up and administer printing services and printers |
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Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell |
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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones |
Resource management topics projects and tasks, extended accounting, resource controls, fair share scheduler (FSS), physical memory control using the resource capping daemon (rcapd), and resource pools; virtualization using Solaris Zones software partitioning technology and lx branded zones |
ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery |
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Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures |
System administration that is specific to the Oracle Solaris' Trusted Extensions feature |
Starting with the Solaris 10 5/08 release, describes how to plan for, enable, and initially configure the Oracle Solaris' Trusted Extensions feature |
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The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories; on screen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with on screen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 |
Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
To delete a file, type rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. Do not save changes yet. |
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell prompt |
machine_name% |
C shell superuser prompt |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt |
# |