System Administration Guide, Volume 3 is part of a three-volume set that covers a significant part of the SolarisTM system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOSTM 5.8 operating system, and you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.8 operating system is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes many features, including the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The SunOS 5.8 operating system is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.
The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms--SPARCTM and IA. The Solaris operating environment runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit address spaces. The information in this document pertains to both platforms and address spaces unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.
This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 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 covered by the three volumes of the System Administration Guides.
"Managing Users and Groups Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Server and Client Support Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Shutting Down and Booting a System Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Removable Media Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Software Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Devices Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Disks Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing File Systems Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Backing Up and Restoring Data Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1
"Managing Printing Services Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Working With Remote Systems Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Managing Terminals and Modems Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Managing System Security Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Managing System Resources Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Managing System Performance Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Troubleshooting Solaris Software Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 2
"Network Services Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
"IP Address Managament Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
"Modem-Related Network Services Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
"Accessing Remote File Systems Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
"Mail Services Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
"Monitoring Network Services Topics" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
This is a list of related documentation that is refered to in this book.
Anderson, Bart, Bryan Costales, and Harry Henderson. UNIX Communications. Howard W. Sams & Company, 1987.
Cheswick, William R. and Steven M. Bellovin. Firewalls and Internet Security. Addison Wesley, 1994.
Costales, Bryan. sendmail, Second Edition. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997.
Frey, Donnalyn and Rick Adams. !%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993.
Krol, Ed. The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. O' Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993.
O' Reilly, Tim and Grace Todino. Managing UUCP and Usenet. O' Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992.
Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols. Addison Wesley, 1994.
Fatbrain.com, an Internet professional bookstore, stocks select product documentation from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
For a list of documents and how to order them, visit the Sun Documentation Center on Fatbrain.com at http://www1.fatbrain.com/documentation/sun.
The docs.sun.comSM 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.
The following table describes the typographic changes 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. You must be root to do this. |
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 | # |