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Solaris 7 System Administration Supplement

Chapter 5 System Administration Notes

This chapter describes the following new system administration information:

Note -

For the most up-to-date man pages, use the man command. The Solaris 7 11/99 man pages include new feature information not found in the Solaris 7 Reference Manual Collection.

Migrating to BIND 8.1

The "Migration from BIND 4.9.x to BIND 8.1" section of the Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide and the Solaris Naming Administration Guide has been updated for the Solaris 7 8/99 software release. The shell script name as well as the pathname have changed from /etc/named-boot2conf to /usr/sbin/named-bootconf.

AnswerBook2 Server Software Updates

This functionality is updated in the Solaris 7 8/99 software release.

The AnswerBook2 version 1.4.1 server software provides improved performance, a textual, rather than graphical, navigation interface, and the ability to view and search information by collection.

For detailed information about changes to the AnswerBook2 interface, see Viewing Online Documentation Using the AnswerBook2 System.

SPARC: Running cron Jobs With Power Management Software

This functionality was new in the Solaris 7 3/99 software release.

This information supersedes the information on cron jobs found in "Choosing to Use Power Management" in Using Power Management.

Beginning with the Solaris 7 release, cron jobs scheduled to run during the time a system is suspended with Power Management software are handled in the following way:

Normally, the cron command identifies the next job to run and calculates the interval to wait until it is time to run that job. When a system resumes, the cron command calculates the interval until the first job has expired; then this already-queued cron job is run.

cron then rechecks its queue of jobs. It only considers jobs whose execution time has not yet passed, so any additional jobs whose run time is due during the time the system was suspended are not run.