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Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement
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Preface
Chapter 1 What's New at a Glance
Chapter 2 Managing With System Administration Tools Topics
Chapter 3 Managing With Solaris Management Console
Solaris Management Console Overview
Starting Solaris Management Console
Chapter 4 Managing Desktops, Devices, and Networks With WBEM
Changes to the Solaris WBEM Services Administrator's Guide
Chapter 5 Managing Security Topics
Chapter 6 Managing Security With RBAC
Role-Based Access Control
Chapter 7 Transmission of Data With GSS-API
GSS-API Programming Guide
Chapter 8 Managing Security With Smart Cards
SPARC: Changes to the Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Chapter 9 Managing Servers and Clients Topics
Chapter 10 Managing Diskless Clients
Managing Diskless Clients Overview
Working With Diskless Client Management
User Rights
Disk Space Requirements
How to Set Up Your Diskless Client Environment
Preparing to Add OS Services
How to Add an OS Service
How to Add a Diskless Client
Patching OS Services
Troubleshooting
Chapter 11 Managing File Systems Topics
Chapter 12 Managing File Systems With UFS Software
Improved UFS Direct I/O Concurrency
Chapter 13 Backing Up File Systems With fssnap
UFS Snapshots Overview
Why Use UFS Snapshots?
UFS Snapshots Performance Issues
Creating UFS Snapshots
How to Create a UFS Snapshot
Examples—Creating a UFS Snapshot
How to Display UFS Snapshot Information
Deleting a UFS Snapshot
How to Delete a UFS Snapshot
Example—Deleting a UFS Snapshot
Backing Up a UFS Snapshot
How to Back Up a UFS Snapshot
How to Create an Incremental Dump of a UFS Snapshot
Restoring Data From a UFS Snapshot Backup
Chapter 14 Managing Removable Media Topics
Chapter 15 Managing Removable Media
Managing Removable Media Overview
Accessing Information on Removable Media
How to Access Information on Removable Media
Examples—Accessing Information on Removable Media
Accessing Jaz Drives or Zip Drives
Formatting Removable Media (rmformat)
How to Format Removable Media (rmformat)
Examples—Formatting Removable Media
How to Format Removable Media for a UFS or UDFS File System
Example—Formatting Removable Media for a UFS File System
How to Format Removable Media for a PCFS File System
Examples—Formatting Removable Media for a PCFS File System
How to Check a PCFS File System on Removable Media
Example—Checking a PCFS File System on Removable Media
How to Repair Bad Blocks on Removable Media
Applying Read or Write and Password Protection to Removable Media
How to Enable or Disable Write Protection on Removable Media
How to Enable or Disable Read or Write Protection and a Password on Iomega Media
Examples—Enabling or Disabling Read or Write Protection
Chapter 16 Managing Devices Topics
Chapter 17 Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM) Scripts
RCM Script Overview
What Is an RCM Script?
What Can an RCM Script Do?
How Does the RCM Script Process Work?
RCM Script Commands
RCM Script Processing Environment
RCM Script Tasks
Application Developer RCM Script Tasks
System Administrator RCM Script Tasks
Naming an RCM Script
Installing or Removing an RCM Script
How to Install an RCM Script
How to Remove an RCM Script
How to Test an RCM Script
Tape Backup RCM Script Example
What the Tape Backup RCM Script Does
Outcomes of the Tape Backup Reconfiguration Scenarios
Example—Tape Backup RCM Script
Chapter 18 Managing USB Devices
Overview of USB Devices
Commonly Used USB Acronyms
USB Bus Description
USB Devices and Drivers
Solaris USB Architecture (USBA)
About USB in the Solaris Environment
USB Keyboards and Mouse Devices
USB Host Controller and Root Hub
USB Hub Devices
USB Storage Devices
Managing USB Mass Storage Devices With vold Running
How to Mount or Unmount a USB Mass Storage Device With vold Running
How to Remove a Hot-Pluggable USB Mass Storage Device With vold Running
How to Add a Hot-Pluggable USB Mass Storage Device With vold Running
Managing USB Mass Storage Devices Without vold Running
How to Mount or Unmount a USB Mass Storage Device Without vold Running
How to Remove a Hot-Pluggable USB Mass Storage Device Without vold Running
How to Add a Hot-Pluggable USB Mass Storage Device Without vold Running
SPARC: Creating Data on or Extracting Data From a USB CD
How to Prepare for Creating Data on or Extracting Data From a USB CD
SPARC Only: USB Power Management
Hot-Plugging USB Devices
USB Cables
USB Printer Support
Chapter 19 Troubleshooting Dynamic Reconfiguration Problems
New Dynamic Reconfiguration Error Messages
Chapter 20 Managing Networks Topics
Chapter 21 Mail Services
Other Sources of Information About sendmail
Changes to Version 8.9.3 of sendmail
New Command-Line Options
New and Revised Configuration File Options and Related Topics
Deprecated Configuration File Options for sendmail
New ClientPortOptions Option
Changes to DaemonPortOptions Option
Additional Arguments for the PidFile and ProcessTitlePrefix Options
Changes to the PrivacyOptions Option
Changes to the Timeout Option
New Defined Macros for sendmail
New Macros Used to Build the sendmail Configuration File
New and Revised m4 Configuration Macros for sendmail and Related Topics
New and Revised FEATURE() Declarations
Revised MAILER() Declaration for m4 Configuration
New Compile Flags for sendmail
New Delivery Agent Flags
New Equates for Delivery Agents
New Queue Features
New Uses for LDAP in sendmail
New Built-in Mailer Feature
New Rule Set Features
New File Locations
Changes to mail.local
Changes to mailstats
Changes to makemap
Other Changes and Features of Interest
Chapter 22 Migration From Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND), Version 8.1.2 to BIND Version 8.2.2, Patch Level 5
BIND Upgrade
Chapter 23 IP Network Multipathing
Detaching Network Adapters
Chapter 24 Mobile IP Administration
Reverse Tunneling and Private Addresses
Chapter 25 Managing System Resources Topics
Chapter 26 Managing Resources With System Accounting
Extended Accounting Features
Chapter 27 Managing System Performance Topics
Chapter 28 Improving System Performance With DNLC
DNLC Improvements
Chapter 29 Managing System Tuning for Better Performance
Changes to the Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual
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