Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Roadmap

Documentation Overview

The Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 operating environment is based on the Solaris 8 2/02 software release and the Solaris 8 HW 12/02 hardware release. Thus, you need access to the complete Solaris 8 2/02 document set in addition to the Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 document set. The Trusted Solaris document set focuses on the those aspects of the environment that are different from the Solaris environment.

The docs.sun.com^SM Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com. Print versions can be downloaded from this site.

Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Document Set

The Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Documentation CD contains instructions on how to install the online versions of the documentation on a Trusted Solaris server at your site. The Trusted Solaris document set consists of the following books:

Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Release Notes describes late-breaking news about Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 software. The release notes list known problems and their workarounds. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers, end users)
Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration describes how to install the Trusted Solaris operating environment at networked and non-networked sites. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris User's Guide describes the basic features of the Trusted Solaris environment from the end user's point of view. The guide explains basic concepts and provides a glossary of terms. (Primary audience: end users, administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris Administration Overview explains the concepts of administration in the Trusted Solaris operating environment. This book provides an overview of administrative tools and commands. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures provides detailed information for performing administrative tasks. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris Audit Administration provides detailed information about the auditing system. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris Label Administration provides information on specifying label components in the label encodings file. The label encodings file enforces the various rules that describe well-formed labels for a system. (Primary audience: administrators)
Trusted Solaris Developer's Guide describes how to develop applications for the Trusted Solaris environment. (Primary audience: developers; secondary audience: administrators)
Compartmented Mode Workstation Labeling: Encodings Format describes the syntax of the label encodings file. This book is a third-party document, written by the MITRE Corporation specifically for the U.S. government. The book complements Trusted Solaris Label Administration. (Primary audience: administrators; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Transition Guide provides an overview of the differences between earlier versions of the Trusted Solaris, Solaris 8 HW 12/02, and Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 operating environments. The guide also covers the differences between Solaris 8 2/02 software, the Solaris Management Console 2.0 tool, CDE 1.4.8 software, and their modification in Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 software. (Primary audience: administrators, end users; secondary audience: developers)
Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Reference Manual provides all Trusted Solaris man pages in seven volumes. (Primary audience: all)
Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Roadmap – This document.

Online Documentation and Man Pages

Online help is provided in the Trusted Solaris operating environment. The Front Panel help icon provides help when you use CDE. The Solaris Management Console help system provides help when you use the administration graphical user interface. This online help describes the Trusted Solaris modifications of CDE and the Solaris Management Console.

An extensive library of man pages for the Trusted Solaris operating environment is available in the Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Reference Manual. You can read man pages at the command line by using the man command.

Note –

If a man page is in both the Solaris and the Trusted Solaris reference manuals, refer to the man page in the Trusted Solaris 8 HW 12/02 Reference Manual. The Trusted Solaris man page includes information that is unique to the Trusted Solaris operating environment.

Accessing Trusted Solaris Man Pages

The man pages for the Trusted Solaris environment reside in three different directories. For the man command to find all the Trusted Solaris man pages, your man page path needs to include the following three directories:

/usr/man
/usr/openwin/man
/usr/dt/man

If your site uses other directories for man pages, those directories must also be included in the man page path.

For C shell users, the MANPATH variable can be set individually by users in their shell initialization files. The variable can also be set globally by administrators in site-wide shell initialization files. To set the MANPATH variable, enter the following:

% setenv MANPATH="/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man:$MANPATH"

To check a system's current MANPATH setting, enter:

% echo $MANPATH
/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man:/opt/sun/man:/opt/doctools/man

This command displays the three paths that are previously mentioned, and displays any other paths to man pages at your site.